American Victory : Wrestling, Dreams, and a Journey Toward Home, Paperback by Cejudo, Henry; Plaschke, Bill (CON), ISBN 0451232038, ISBN-13 9780451232038, Brand New, Free shipping in the US

The son of illegal Mexican immigrants, Henry Cejudo surprised the world by winning an Olympic gold medal in wrestling for the . in Beijing--the first American in sixteen years to win the gold medal in freestyle wrestling and the youngest American gold medalist ever in this event. Until he joined the . Olympic team, he had never had three meals in a single day, never had his own bed, never even had a pillow. This is Henry's poignant memoir of growing up in a segment of the American population thatis too often overlooked and underestimated, and of how he rose above the statistics and the dangers to become a publisher description.