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Playing for Keeps

Michael Jordan and the World He Made

Playing for Keeps( )
Author: Halberstam, David
ISBN:978-0-679-41562-6
Publication Date:Mar 1999
Publisher:Random House, Incorporated
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $49.95
Book Description:

InPlaying 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.          FromThe...
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Book Details
Pages:352
Detailed Subjects: Sports & Recreation / Basketball
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):16.51 x 24.359 x 3.835 cm
Book Weight:0.781 Kilograms
Author Biography
Halberstam, David (Author)
David Halberstam was born on April 10, 1934 in New York City and later attended Harvard University. After graduating in 1955, Halberstam worked at a small daily newspaper until he attained a position at the Nashville Tennessean.

Halberstam has written over 20 books including The Children, a written account of his coverage of the Civil Rights Movement; The Best and Brightest, which was a bestseller; and The Game and October, 1964, both detailing his fascination of sports. Halberstam also won a Pulitzer Prize for his reports on the Vietnam War while working for the New York Times. He was killed in a car crash on April 23, 2007 at the age of 73.

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