Pre by Tom Jordan: The Steve Prefontaine Story and Why He Still Matters
Steve Prefontaine never sat back and waited. He ran every race from the front, at full effort, from the gun, and for five years no American could beat him at any distance over a mile. Tom Jordan's biography captures what made Pre different: he treated racing as a creative act, a way of making something beautiful happen on the track. He died at 24. This is the definitive account of the most intense competitor in the history of American distance running.