Playing for Keeps
Michael Jordan and the World He Made
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Playing for Keeps
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JD Jackson
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David Halberstam
About this listen
From The Breaks of the Game to Summer of ’49, David Halberstam has brought the perspective of a great historian, the insider 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 sports. With Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls he has given himself the greatest challenge and produced his greatest triumph.
In Playing for Keeps, 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 in to history’s greatest basketball player and the larger forces that have converged to make him the most famous living human being in the world.
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Critic reviews
"David Halberstam has written a remarkable book about the changes in American society over the last twenty-five years. On one level, it is about basketball and the game's greatest player, Michael Jordan. On another level, it is about how an entertainment culture envelops Jordan and makes him its own. But on its deepest level, it is a story about working to overcome the odds, honoring parents and family, and striving to become a positive social force. This book is a must read for basketball fans, admirers of Jordan, and anyone who seeks to understand sports in America today." --Bill Bradley
Praise for
The Breaks of the Game
"One of the best books I've ever read about sports."
--The New York Times
"The best book Halberstam has written...immediate and moving."
--The Washington Post
Summer of '49
"Dazzling... a celebration of a vanished heroic age and a 'simpler America.' "
--The New York Times
"Paradise regained...a gorgeous story with personalities and anecdotes jam-packing every page."
--Newsweek
The Amateurs
"Astonishing... moving. One of the best books ever written about a sport."
--Newsweek
Praise for
The Breaks of the Game
"One of the best books I've ever read about sports."
--The New York Times
"The best book Halberstam has written...immediate and moving."
--The Washington Post
Summer of '49
"Dazzling... a celebration of a vanished heroic age and a 'simpler America.' "
--The New York Times
"Paradise regained...a gorgeous story with personalities and anecdotes jam-packing every page."
--Newsweek
The Amateurs
"Astonishing... moving. One of the best books ever written about a sport."
--Newsweek
Great Book for an Even Greater Player!
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Great narration!
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