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Days of Grace: A Memoir. - book reviews
American Visions, August-Sept, 1993 by Gary A. Puckrein
Days of Grace: A Memoir by Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad (Alfred A. Knopf. 1993. $24.00)--A powerful, indeed sad, memoir about the courageous life of one of this country's greatest athletes and statesmen. The book has so many poignant moments: the day Ashe nearly struck tennis brat John McEnroe; the discovery that he had AIDS; his lecturing Magic Johnson and Wilt Chamberlain about boasting about their sexual promiscuity, describing these men as "racial embarrassments"; and his open letter to his daughter, Camera.
Ashe's life seems a restatement of the old adage that "only the good die young."
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