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Oscar De la Hoya: American Son (EBook, 2008, HarperCollins) 4 stars

From Oscar De La Hoya, one of the most celebrated fighters in the history of …

A rags to riches story

4 stars

You have to take any autobiography with a grain of salt, especially with the number of grudges involved, but this story of an already likable athlete has a lot of honesty about his (all too comomon) mistakes made as a rising star and the (again, all too common) emotional baggage of his upbringing and the identity issues of any non-white American. This book was published in 2008 so a lot has happened since then, I'd be interested to read an updated take.