Harnessing Anger, 9781888363678
Paperback
Pete Westbrook‘s story takes him from urban poverty and a broken family to the highest reaches of sports excellence as 13-time U.S. National sabre champion, 6-time Olympian, and a man who reclaimed the aristocratic art of fencing as a sport available to one and all. As Westbrook tells it, he was abl…

Harnessing Anger

the inner discipline of athletic excellence

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  • Paperback

    192 pages

  • Release Date

    31 July 2011

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Summary

To Peter Westbrook, “harnessing anger” means controlling one’s fury and channeling it in a positive direction. Westbrook’s success in what he once called “that strange white sport” is really just one expression of the self-discipline that has led him to beat the odds, again and again.In Harnessing Anger, Westbrook tells how he came to be the first African American to win a national gold title in sabre fencing. The son of an African-American father and a Japanese mother, Peter was aised by his…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781888363678
ISBN-10:1888363673
Author:Peter Westbrook, Tej Hazarika
Publisher:Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Imprint:Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:192
Release Date:31 July 2011
Weight:265g
Dimensions:1mm x 1mm
About The Author

Peter Westbrook

PETER WESTBROOK is a six-time Olympian athelete. He has been featured countless times in print and electronic media, including appearances on The Today Show, CNN, TBS, and BET, and in The New York Times, People, the Village Voice, the New York Daily News, the Newark Star Ledger, and the Philadelphia Inquirer, among others.TEJ HAZARIKA is a writer and publisher of Cool Grove Press. A graduate of Columbia University, he lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Candace, and their five-year-old son, Sage.

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