Basketball: Great Writing About America's Game
A Library of America Special Publication
- Hardcover
485 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2018
Summary
From the street game to March Madness to Jordan and LeBron, the greatest writing about the grit, grace, and glory of basketball.
Made in America, basketball is a sport that stirs a national passion, reaching fever pitch during the NCAA’s March Madness and the NBA Finals. Masterfully assembled by longtime Sports Illustrated writer Alexander Wolff, Basketball spans eight decades to bring together a dream team of writers as awe-inspiring and endlessly inventive as the game itself. Here a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598535563 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1598535560 |
| Author: | Alexander Wolff, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 485 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2018 |
| Weight: | 807g |
| Dimensions: | 241mm x 160mm x 33mm |
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Critics Review
“Splendid… . Like an all-star game between hard covers.”
—David M. Shribman, The Wall Street Journal
“A great hoops book… . Casts a wide net that goes far beyond the NBA … [to] speak to the multitudes contained within the game, whether it’s played on the biggest stage in the world or a playground after dark.”
— Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News
“An embarrassment of riches… . This collection is a slam dunk for anyone who loves basketball.”
—Erik Spanberg, The Christian Science Monitor
“Deserves a place on the shelf of any self-respecting hoops fan.”
— Alex Belth, Deadspin.com/The Stacks
“What a terrific book… . Wolff’s basketball anthology is such a wonderful surprise.”
— Jeff Simon, The Buffalo News
“Alexander Wolff has put together this collection like a master point guard distributing the ball, deftly providing both a chronology of the game and a full, rich accounting of its place in American culture.”
—Glenn Stout, series editor, The Best American Sports Writing
About The Author
Alexander Wolff
Longtime Sports Illustrated contributor ALEXANDER WOLFF is the author or co-author of seven books on basketball, including The Audacity of Hoop: Basketball and the Age of Obama; the New York Times bestseller Raw Recruits; and Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure, a 2002 New York Times Notable Book. In 2011 he was named winner of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame’s Curt Gowdy Media Award for lifetime coverage of the game.
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