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Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made by Halberstam, David

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Condition
Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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Binding
Paperback
Weight
0 lbs
Product Group
Book
IsTextBook
No
ISBN
0767904443

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0767904443
ISBN-13
9780767904445
eBay Product ID (ePID)
419862

Product Key Features

Book Title
Playing for Keeps : Michael Jordan and the World He Made
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Topic
History, Basketball, Sports
Publication Year
2000
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
Author
David Halberstam
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
13.4 Oz
Item Length
7.9 in
Item Width
5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
99-041931
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"The best Jordan book so far." --Washington Post "A remarkable book . . . a must-read for basketball fans, admirers of Jordan, and anyone who seeks to understand sports in America today." --Bill Bradley "The single greatest sports book I've ever read." --Dan Le Batard, ESPN Radio "What David Halberstam delivers--and what the reader has come to expect from Halberstam--is insight, balance, analysis." --New York Times "A wonderful book, written by a remarkable journalist." --Seattle Times "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, "The best Jordan book so far." -- Washington Post "A remarkable book . . . a must-read for basketball fans, admirers of Jordan, and anyone who seeks to understand sports in America today." --Bill Bradley "The single greatest sports book I've ever read." --Dan Le Batard, ESPN Radio "What David Halberstam delivers--and what the reader has come to expect from Halberstam--is insight, balance, analysis." -- New York Times "A wonderful book, written by a remarkable journalist." -- Seattle Times "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
Dewey Decimal
796.323/092 B
Synopsis
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist comes "the best Jordan book so far" ( The Washington Post ), the story of Michael Jordan's legendary years with the Chicago Bulls, capped by the 1998 NBA Finals and the team's second three-peat. 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., NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist comes "the best Jordan book so far" ( The Washington Post ), the story of Michael Jordan's legendary years with the Chicago Bulls, capped by the 1998 NBA Finals and the team's second three-peat. 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., 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.
LC Classification Number
GV884.J67H35 2000

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