History as art.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills

Hillenbrand's book also provides an interesting illustration of how the writer of history can make history. She says that Seabiscuit got more attention than any other hero of the era. She bases her claim on the amount of newspaper space devoted to him. She may be right about the amount of space, but many other figures of the time loomed larger in the public mind, including FDR in politics and Joe Louis in sports. But Hillenbrand's eloquent book means that from now on Seabiscuit...