Evel: The High-Flying Life of Evel Knievel: American Showman, Daredevil, and Legend

by Leigh Montville

Book Overview

Evel Knievel, the father of extreme sports, was a high-flying daredevil. He was the personification of excitement and danger and showmanship, and represented a unique slice of American culture and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385527454
• ISBN13: 9780385527453
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Never Meet Your Heroes

This is what a biography should be: a well-researched, well-written examination of where a person comes from and what makes his or her life worth examining. Evel Knievel was a bona fide superhero to me and my generation as we were growing up, but we didn't know the whole story. Montville expertly tells the rise and fall of self-made man Robert Craig Knievel, the moral of which is this: admire Evel's achievements but don't admire the man. This is an outstanding book.