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American Colossus: Big Bill Tilden and the Creation of Modern Tennis
2018 biography of Bill Tilden
American Colossus: Big Bill Tilden and the Creation of Modern Tennis is a 2018 hardcover biography of American tennis athlete Bill Tilden written by Allen M.
Hornblum, a journalist who considered Tilden a great athlete and wrongly forgotten by history. The book mostly focuses on Tilden's life as a very successful athlete who won the Wimbledon Championships, Davis Cup, and U. S.
Open all multiple times.
Autobiography of big bill tilden tennis player
American Colossus credits Tilden with tennis's popularization and attributes his consignment to obscurity to Tilden being shunned for his sexual behavior. The Telegraph called the book "excellent", and the Northeast Times praised its narration of tennis matches.
The Times Literary Supplement thought Tilden "remains in shadow" in American Colossus.
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Journalist Allen M. Hornblum believed that American tennis athlete Bill Tilden was wrongfully, in his