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\n The Masters golf tournament weaves a hypnotic spell. It is the toughest ticket in sports, with black-market tickets selling for $10,000 and more. Success at Augusta National breeds legends, while failure can overshadow even the most brilliant of careers. But as Curt Sampson, author of the bestselling Hogan, reveals in The Masters, a cold heart beats behind the warm antebellum fa\u00e7ade of this famous Augusta course. And that heart belongs to the man who killed himself on the grounds two decades ago. Club and tournament founder Clifford Roberts, a New York stockbroker, still seems to run the place from his grave. An elusive and reclusive figure, Roberts pulled the strings that made the Masters the greatest golf tournament in the world. His story\u2014including his relationship with presidents, power brokers, and every golf champion from Bobby Jones to Arnold Palmer to Jack Nicklaus\u2014has never been told. Until now.
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The Masters is an amazing slice of history, taking us inside the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Augusta’s most famous member. It is a look at how the new South coexists with the old South: the relationships between blacks and whites, between Southerners and Northerners, between rich and poor\u2014with such characters as James Brown, the Godfather of Soul; the great boxer Beau Jack; and Frank Stranahan, the playboy golfer and the only white pro ever banned from the tournament. The Masters is a spellbinding portrait of a tournament unlike any other. <\/p>\n

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Publisher \u200f : \u200e Villard
Publication date \u200f : \u200e March 16, 1999
Language \u200f : \u200e English
Print length \u200f : \u200e 304 pages
ISBN-10 \u200f : \u200e 0375753370
ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e 978-0375753374
Item Weight \u200f : \u200e 7.6 ounces
Dimensions \u200f : \u200e 5.16 x 0.63 x 7.95 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #96,869 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #49 in Sociology of Sports (Books) #62 in Sports History (Books) #92 in Golf (Books)
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