{"subtitle": "the inimitable Emil Z\u00e1topek, the greatest Olympic runner of all time", "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"Based on extensive research in the Czech Republic, interviews with people across the world who knew him, and unprecedented cooperation from his widow ... journalist Richard Askwith's book breathes new life into the man and the myth, uncovering a glorious age of athletics and an epoch-defining time in world history.\"--Jacket."}, "isbn_10": ["1568585497"], "lc_classifications": ["GV1061.15.Z37 A75 2016", "GV1061.15.Z37A75", "GV1061.15.Z38 A867 2016"], "key": "/books/OL27231092M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL3149317A"}], "table_of_contents": [{"level": 0, "title": "Prologue : the curious incident", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "'Z\u00e1-to-pek! Z\u00e1-to-pek!'", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "The Kop\u0159ivnice kid", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Shoemaking", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "The soldier", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Beginnings", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "The lights come on again", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Love and death", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "The Czech locomotive", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Mission : invincible", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Fairy-tale Pete", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "The longest day", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "The people's champion", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "'Today we die a little'", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "The ambassador", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Spring fever", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Disgrace", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Exile", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "In the drawer", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "'Say it ain't so, Emil'", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "The last lap", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Epilogue : gold dust.", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}], "subjects": ["Sports and state", "Olympic athletes", "Track and field athletes", "Biography"], "isbn_13": ["9781568585499"], "pagination": "xvii, 457 pages", "source_records": ["marc:marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary/sfpl_chq_2018_12_24_run05.mrc:430984912:2867", "bwb:9781568585499", "marc:marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-025.mrc:125198209:2439", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/20220215_040.bib.mrc:95239124:1608"], "title": "Today we die a little!", "dewey_decimal_class": ["796.42092", "B"], "notes": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Includes bibliographical references and index."}, "number_of_pages": 457, "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "lccn": ["2016933228"], "subject_places": ["Czechoslovakia"], "local_id": ["urn:sfpl:31223122243042", "urn:sfpl:31223122243034"], "subject_people": ["Emil Z\u00e1topek (1922-2000)"], "publish_country": "nyu", "publish_date": "2016", "by_statement": "Richard Askwith", "oclc_numbers": ["928613603"], "works": [{"key": "/works/OL20051069W"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "publishers": ["Nation Books"], "latest_revision": 4, "revision": 4, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-07-19T21:40:06.905298"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-05-17T11:18:39.381269"}}