[Mobile ebook] Paul Morphy: Pride and Sorrow of Chess
❀ David Lawson ❀
| #776221 in Books | The House of Staunton, Inc. | 2010-09-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.20 x1.10 x6.00l,1.58 | File Name: 1887366970 | 430 pages | Author: David Lawson | Pages: 398 Pages | Publication Years: 2010
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| very informative|By Roy J|The book is very informative. All the little tidbits you hear about Morphy from various sources is all packed into one book. Mr Lawson also adds his own views which, being that he spent a lifetime gathering information on Morphy, are expert views on the subject. Note, literally half of the book consists of correspondence of all kinds. Letters from wit|About the Author|Thomas Aiello is an assistant professor of history at Valdosta State University. He is the editor of "Dan Burley's Jive" and the author of the forthcoming "Bayou Classic: The Grambling-Southern Football Rivalry" and "The Kings of Casino Park: R
Paul Morphy: The Pride and Sorrow of Chess is the only full-length biography of Paul Morphy, the antebellum chess prodigy who launched United States participation in international chess and is still generally acknowledged as the greatest American chess player of all time. But Morphy was more than a player. He was a shy, retiring lawyer who had been taught that such games were no way to make a living. The strain of his fame and the pull of his domineering family led Morp...
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