What are you reading?

Just finishing "Tearing Down the Wall of Sound - The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector"
What a freaky, insecure guy - but a great producer and guitar player.

Please recommend another biography or other non-fiction book.

Thanks
:)

by Joe Reasbeck. It's a children/young adult book that I am reviewing for a website that I write for.

For a nonfiction book, I recommend "The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, a People, A Nation" by Sally Jenkins. It's about the Carlisle Indians football team.

Here is an excerpt:

In 1879, a cavalry officer named Richard Henry Pratt established an experimental boarding school for American Indians in an Army barracks in Carlisle, Pa. His purpose was to "civilize" his students and make them U.S. citizens. "Kill the Indian, save the man," Pratt liked to say.

On Carlisle's athletic field, however, a different experiment took place, this one conducted by the pupils. In 1895, the students took up the American game of football, still in its formative years, and began to schedule the Ivy League teams. For the next 20 years, the dispossessed Carlisle Indians ranked among the foremost football powers in the country. Under the creative tutelage of coach Glenn Scobey "Pop" Warner, they developed an innovative array of trick plays, reverses, end-arounds and flea-flickers, and threw the first spirals through the air on a major stage. Today, every time a quarterback feigns a handoff, or rears back to throw, a debt is owed to the Indians.

The talent for deception was partly out of necessity: With a student body of just 1,000, ranging in age from 12 to 25, Carlisle was perpetually outmanned and dangerously undersized. Football was a dull, grinding and occasionally lethal sport, with deaths regularly reported on the field But the Indians began to explore a new kind of football.
-- Sally Jenkins

More:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=jenkins/070806