{"product_id":"major-taylor-frederick-noland-9781770464933","title":"Major Taylor: The World's Fastest Man","description":"\u003cb\u003eCelebrating the history-making Black American who smashed world records and became a global cycling sensation!\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarshall Walter \"Major\" Taylor was one of the greatest American athletes of the early 20th century, setting records in regional bike races as a teen and winning his first world championship by the age of twenty. But Taylor was born in 1878 in Indianapolis and came of age during the height of the Jim Crow era, facing racism at every turn. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCartoonist Frederick Noland is a cyclist himself and in this epic 400 page graphic biography of America's first Black world champion, he thrills in the records Taylor broke and the adoring public he found across North America, Europe, and Australia, all the while showing how the invention of the bicycle changed society. Yet Noland also documents how racism inflected Black life in the post Civil War era: cyclists would collude to injure Taylor, and he faced segregationist policies even in liberal cities such as San Francisco. And while Taylor found respite racing overseas, he soon found American-style racism exported internationally to sell tickets. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNoland pens a gorgeous, humane, graphic paean to Major Taylor, illustrating how the fastest man in America also had a deep well of integrity and fortitude not just to succeed, but to overcome the racist abuse he faced from fellow athletes and society at large. \u003ci\u003eMajor Taylor\u003c\/i\u003e is a loving tribute to an exceptional American.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frederick Noland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 177046493X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781770464933\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Drawn \u0026amp; Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 372\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs","brand":"Frederick Noland","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48443191755007,"sku":"9781770464933","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ff6f7953-33c9-42cc-b2d3-b857d6851df1.jpg?v=1777202464","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/major-taylor-frederick-noland-9781770464933","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}