![]() After his discharge, he got a job covering local politics at Newsday, and later moved to sports. Army, including a tour in Vietnam in 1968. ![]() After college, Nack enlisted and served a two-year hitch in the U.S. "He was a great American prose stylist,’’ wrote Ebert in 2008, part of long homage to Nack’s erudition and his love of books and words. Nack went to the University of Illinois, where he met Roger Ebert. As a child growing up in Skokie, Illinois, he worked cleaning a neighbor’s horses’ stalls and in his teens, he started going to the racetrack with his father. It was almost preordained that Nack would become the greatest turf writer in history. ![]() Pure Heart, written several months after Secretariat was euthanized, was a passionate remembrance of a transcendent racehorse but also of a man who had immersed himself in the story, and now found himself counting the passing of years and tasting the familiarity of his own tales. His story entitled Pure Heart, published in the Jissue of Sports Illustrated, was an emotional remembrance of the horse and the story that was the centerpiece of Nack’s career, Big Red’s run to the Triple Crown in the spring of 1973. The palette upon which Nack painted his most vivid portraits was horse racing, particularly Secretariat. ![]()
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