{"product_id":"jim-thorpe-never-slept-here-richard-benyo-9781589661660","title":"Jim Thorpe Never Slept Here: And Other Stories from a Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania Boyhood","description":"Jim Thorp never slept in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, the town formerly known as Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk. But through a combination of ambition, necessity, and sheer luck, these small towns became the final resting place of the great American Indian Olympic champion and in 1954 they legally changed their name to permanently commemorate his burial. \u003ci\u003eJim Thorpe Never Slept Here\u003c\/i\u003e, a treasury of tales from a 1950s boyhood in a town surrounded by the mountains of the Pennsylvania anthracite coal region, is a passport to a lost land of childhood adventure, featuring an ancient river, old mine shafts, canal locks, hobos camps, the remains of millionaires' mansions--and the hilarious antics of Richard Benyo and his buddies in the South Street Gang. \u003cbr\u003eThis memoir brings the 1950s alive--just as \u003ci\u003eThe Little Rascals\u003c\/i\u003e did for the Depression--with its renderings of afternoons spent with baseball cards, cardboard forts, BB guns, playground bullying. and that first illicit sip of beer. \u003ci\u003eJim Thorpe Never Slept Here \u003c\/i\u003eis a memorable, nostalgic account of all the trials, tribulations, and the rites of passage of growing up in post-war America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Benyo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1589661664\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781589661660\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Scranton Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 275\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.01w x 0.54d","brand":"Richard Benyo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46838326034687,"sku":"9781589661660","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_33ca3592-a0ed-4b5b-9e56-7a8991a28947.jpg?v=1746589479","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jim-thorpe-never-slept-here-richard-benyo-9781589661660","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}