What is the author's tone in Pre: The Story of America's Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine by Tom Jordan?

The tone of the narrative is one of adoration/adulation for Pre, his personal qualities, and his accomplishments. This is not only reflected in the title - could a man with such a short career be "America's Greatest Running Legend"? - and in the prose, but in the selected quotations author Jordan has culled from various runners, coaches, co-workers, and contemporary journalists who encountered Pre. There is a touch of awe to the narrative, a mystical quality about Pre that is commented on, and it is clear Jordan wishes to retain some of that elusive mystique concerning Pre. For Jordan, Pre was less a product of prodigious natural talent and more a product of incredible hard work and an indefatigable spirit, the kind of inspirational figure the reader can look up to and strive to match.