Ben Hogan - An American Life...Authorized, Intimate & Definitive!

This meticulously researched biography provides the complete, and unvarnished story of one of the greatest sportsmen of all time. Filled with fascinating details and deeply poignant insights, this book brings Ben Hogan to life as never before.

Ben Hogan - An American Life:

• Ben Hogan is often credited with shaping the landscape of modern golf -an American hero whose personal life, inner motivation, and famed "secret" were the source of great public mystery
• In this first-ever family-authorized biography, renowned author James Dodson expertly and emotionally reconstructs Hogan's complicated life
• The short, trim, impeccably dressed Texan whose fierce work ethic, legendary steel nerves, and astonishing triumph over personal disaster earned him not only an army of adoring fans, but one of the finest careers in the history of the sport
• Discover an intensely honest man handicapped by self-doubt, buoyed by the determination to prove his own abilities, and unable to escape a long-buried childhood tragedy
• Dodson also reveals both the legendary devotion and eventual strain in Hogan's sixty-two-year marriage, and a Hogan rarely seen by the public: a warm, jovial man whose charitable spirit and sharp business sense enabled him to build the powerful golf equipment company bearing his name to this day
  
  Softcover
  544 pages
  

  The Authoritative Inside Portrait Golf Fans Have Long Awaited!