Culture
Tuesday, 6/30, 12:08 AM
The star-spangled daredevil: Evel Knievel and an American love of risk
- As the United States nears its 250th birthday, few figures capture a certain strand of the national imagination quite like Evel Knievel — the caped, white-leathered showman who turned the motorcycle jump into a patriotic spectacle, and his own broken bones into legend.