S3 E76: Dave Zirin, Author of Jim Brown

This Is the Author

English - May 18, 2018 19:13 - 3 minutes - 5.38 MB - ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
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"I wrote my book because I really felt like Jim Brown is a complicated figure, and we don’t write enough about complicated people. He is not perfect, he is not evil, he is not an angel. I think that in itself provides lessons that are incredibly rich for us today. We don’t do much good in this world when we put our heroes so high up on a pedestal that we can’t even reach them."

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