Drawing on newspaper articles, memoirs, Works Progress Administration State Guides, and other sources, Kastner, a long-distance runner and author, documents the 1929 Bunion Derby, the second and last
On March 4, 1928, 199 men lined up in Los Angeles, California, to participate in a 3,400-mile transcontinental footrace to New York City. The Bunion Derby, as the press dubbed the event, was the brain