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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Madeby David Halberstam
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:From The Breaks of the Game to Summer of '49, David Halberstam has brought the perspective of a great historian, the inside knowledge of a dogged sportswriter, and the love of a fan to bear on some of the most mythic players and teams in the annals of American sport. With Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls he has given himself his greatest challenge and produced his greatest triumph. In Playing for Keeps, David Halberstam takes the first full measure of Michael Jordan's epic career, one of the great American stories of our time. A narrative of astonishing power and human drama, brimming with revealing anecdotes and penetrating insights, the book chronicles the forces in Jordan's life that have shaped him into history's greatest basketball player and the larger forces that have converged to make him the most famous living human being in the world. Review:"Michael Jordan is well named. Although he was not baptized in the river Jordan, he has been seen as 'Jesus in Mikes,' as 'God's child.' His first name is also suggestive, since he has even been compared to Michelangelo, his athleticism likened to an 'art form.' This is not all. For Jordan has even been compared to Gandhi and Einstein. The author falls into such idolatry when he speaks of Jordan playing the game with 'spiritual' determination. Halberstam writes well, his book is deeply absorbing. It is implicitly about far more than the world Jordan made. It paints the picture of a world ready to embrace a great athlete as a demi-god, the world we have made." Reviewed by Andrew Witmer, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review) Review:"The best Jordan book so far." -Washington Post Review:"A remarkable book . . . a must-read for basketball fans, admirers of Jordan, and anyone who seeks to understand sports in America today." -Bill Bradley Review:"The single greatest sports book I've ever read." -Dan Le Batard, ESPN Radio Review:"What David Halberstam delivers--and what the reader has come to expect from Halberstam--is insight, balance, analysis." -New York Times Review:"A wonderful book, written by a remarkable journalist." -Seattle Times Review:"Halberstam writes the story of Jordan in layers through unforgettable tales of his brilliant career . . . An insider's view of basketball, structured like a sports reporter's private journal." -Dallas Morning News About the AuthorDavid Halberstam is the author of fifteen books, including The Best and the Brightest, The Powers That Be, The Reckoning, The Breaks of the Game, Summer of '49, October 1964, and The Amateurs. He has received every major journalistic award, including the Pulitzer Prize, and is a member of the Society of American Historians. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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