In “Path Lit by Lightning,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and biographer David Maraniss follows his subject’s steady climb to sports immortality, beginning with Thorpe’s days at the Carlisle ...

Ted reviews "Path Lit by Lightning", chronicling the life of all-star athlete Jim Thorpe. The life and career of all-star athlete Jim Thorpe are explored in "Path Lit by Lightning", a biography by ...

You’re a lot stronger than you think. Physically, you can run faster, jump higher, land firmer, and throw farther than others. You take your place among the winners. Psychologically, you’re ...

In the book Path Lit by Lightning, author David Maraniss does more than just write Jim Thorpe's life story. He delves into what caused misconceptions and false narratives about the great athlete, ...

David Maraniss’s “Path Lit by Lightning” is a masterful, in-depth portrait of a monumental figure. Until the rise of superstars like Michael Jordan and Serena Williams, many Americans considered Jim ...