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Hillenbrand describes Pollard as a man “sinking downward through his life with the pendulous movement of a leaf falling via still air” (p. 49). Like most Americans in the course of the Great Depression, jockeys lived on the edge of monetary disaster. They had no job safety, no insurance coverage, and had been treated as disposable, interchangeable drones by their employers. The author’s description of a jockey’s life is chilling. In order to maintain their weight down,
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