Charles leerhsen biography
Charles Leerhsen, the author of Butch Cassidy: The True Story of an American Outlaw and the New York Times bestseller Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty....
Charles Leerhsen is a former executive editor at Sports Illustrated.
A Few Words With: Charles Leerhsen
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Author and journalist Charles Leerhsen has made a career out of chronicling the lives of some very famous and complex men, from Chuck Yeager to the renowned race horse Dan Patch.
His last book, the award-winning bestseller “Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty,” shattered over a century of mythology around the baseball icon, leaving readers with a far more interesting and nuanced version of the man than anyone had ever presented before.
His new book does the same for the man born Robert Leroy Parker in Utah in 1866, but who the entire world came to know as Butch Cassidy. We sat down recently to talk about “Butch Cassidy: The True Story of An American Outlaw” and the epic struggle to find the truth behind the legend.
Open Mic: Your new book, “Butch Cassidy: The True Story of an American Outlaw” is
