The Perfect Mile
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Cover of paperback, depicting Roger Bannister breaking the 4 minute mile record
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| Author | Neal Bascomb |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Mariner Books |
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Publication date
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2004 |
| Pages | 344 |
| ISBN | 0-618-56209-5 |
| OCLC | 54001404 |
The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It (2004) by Neal Bascomb is a non-fiction book about three runners and their attempts to become the first man to run a mile under four minutes. The runners are Englishman Roger Bannister, American Wes Santee, and Australian John Landy. The book's climax is Bannister's breaking of the record on May 6, 1954.
The New York Times' review calls it an "enthralling book" and says Bascomb "expertly winds up the tension of the three men's many failed attempts to get closer to the magic mark, before Bannister wrote himself into legend first on a windy day at the Oxford University track".[1]
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