![Book cover of "American Colossus: Big Bill Tilden and the Creation of Modern Tennis". Cover is over a photograph of Tilden wearing a suit, white collared shirt, and necktie with people standing out of frame holding tennis rackets arrayed around Tilden. In the lower half of the image is text that reads as follows: AMERICAN [line break] COLOSSUS [line break] Big Bill Tilden and the Creation of [line break] Modern Tennis • ALLEN M. HORNBLUM [line break] FOREWORD BY JOHN NEWCOMBE](view_image.php?q=American_Colossus:_Big_Bill_Tilden_and_the_Creation_of_Modern_Tennis&sq=Taylor_Swift&lang=en&file=File:First_edition_cover_of_American_Colossus,_by_Allen_Hornblum.jpg) First edition cover | |
| Author | Allen M. Hornblum |
|---|---|
| Genre | Biography |
| Published | March 2018 |
| Publisher | University of Nebraska Press |
| Pages | 512 |
| ISBN | 9780803288119 |
American Colossus: Big Bill Tilden and the Creation of Modern Tennis is a 2018 hardcover biography of American tennis athlete Bill Tilden written by Allen M. Hornblum, a journalist who considered Tilden a great athlete and wrongly forgotten by history. The book mostly focuses on Tilden's life as a very successful athlete who won the Wimbledon Championships, Davis Cup, and U. S. Open all multiple times. American Colossus credits Tilden with tennis' popularization and attributes his consignment to obscurity to Tilden being shunned for his sexual behavior. The Telegraph called the book "excellent", and the Northeast Times praised its narration of tennis matches. The Times Literary Supplement thought Tilden "remains in shadow" in American Colossus.
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