- A
- story
- of
- hopeless
- love—a
- serial
- philanderer
- and
- gambler
- married
- to
- a
- woman
- much
- younger—and
- impossible
- love—his
- wife,
- Casey
- Googan,
- and
- a
- black
- boxer.
- Turn
- of
- the
- century
- Boston
- comes
- alive
- with
- crew
- races,
- balloon
- races,
- boxing,
- rat-baiting,
- and
- fashion
- competitions
- judged
- by
- Isabella
- Stuart
- Gardner.
- Boston’s
- sculling
- champion,
- blue-blood
- Foxhall
- Codman,
- is
- obsessed
- with
- the
- possibility
- that
- the
- phantom
- sculler
- who
- rowed
- through
- him
- in
- fog
- on
- the
- Charles
- River
- was
- a
- woman.
- Thirty-thousand
- spectators—Brahmins
- and
- geeks,
- catch-penny
- operators
- and
- thimble
- riggers—turn
- out
- for
- the
- epic
- race
- on
- the
- Charles,
- a
- battle
- of
- the
- sexes
- prefiguring
- Bobby
- Riggs
- and
- Billy
- Jean
- King
- seven
- decades later.
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