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The rise and fall of one of Americas first Black sports celebritiesDeeply and impressively researched. . . . Ms. Mooney pieces together a narrative with an arc so tight and clean that its a wonder it actually happened. . . . It reads, in other words, like a novel, and that is because the author brought not just rigor, but craft.Max Watman, Wall Street JournalIsaac Murphy, born enslaved in 1861, still reigns as one of the greatest jockeys in American history. Black jockeys like Murphy were at the top of the most popular sport in America at the end of the nineteenth century. They were internationally famous, the first African American superstar athletesand with wins in three Kentucky Derbies and countless other prestigious races, Murphy was the greatest of them all.At the same time, he lived through the seismic events of Emancipation and Reconstruction and formative conflicts over freedom and equality in the United States. And inevitably he was drawn into those conflicts, with devastating consequences.Katherine C. Mooney uncovers the history of Murphys troubled life, his death in 1896 at age thirtyfive, and his afterlife. In recounting Murphys personal story, she also tells two of the great stories of change in nineteenthcentury America: the debates over what a multiracial democracy might look like and the battles over who was to hold power in an economy that increasingly resembled the corporate, wealthpolarized world we know today.
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