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050 00 $aPS3570.H347$bM36 1997
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100 1 $aThayer, James Stewart.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79135032
245 10 $aMan of the century /$cJames Thayer.
260 $aNew York :$bDonald I. Fine Books,$c[1997], ©1997.
300 $a342 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $a"I am the spy of the century," said Woodrow Lowe, age 108, to his interviewer. "I was also a white slave, a heavyweight contender, the ruler of China [until the Dowager Empress cruelly deposed him], and the man who started World War I; and if you don't believe me, you can get out of my house.".
520 8 $aWere the ancient husk's pronouncements those of a liar or madman? At first it seemed the answer to both was yes. Yet over the years emerged unimpeachable evidence of these and many other feats. Man of the Century is Woodrow Lowe's story, unlike any ever remembered or read.
520 8 $aHe fought John L. Sullivan in the Dakotas; he was the first man up San Juan Hill during the charge of the Rough Riders and stood with Teddy Roosevelt at his Second Inaugural (Teddy bailed him out more than once). He carried off Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassin, never to be heard from again. He was a slave of the Dervish in the Sudan. Diamond Jim Brady met his match in Woodrow.
520 8 $aHe was the blond boyo who, a club fighter with a distinctive cauliflower ear (thanks to John L.), found himself mixed in with a century of American and world history, and, remarkably, lived to tell about it in his fashion, at once a rollicking, shrewd recital, dramatized to the hilt, that defied the challenge of the dry historiographies, and created a fulsome story filled with characters - real and some mythic you'll never forget.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$y20th century$vFiction.
655 7 $aAdventure fiction.$2gsafd
655 7 $aHistorical fiction.$2gsafd
655 7 $aSpy stories.$2gsafd
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3570.H347$iM36 1997