Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made

ISBN: 0767904443

Author: Halberstam, David

Condition: New

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist comes the best Jordan book so far (The Washington Post), the story of Michael Jordans legendary years with the Chicago Bulls, capped by the 1998 NBA Finals and the teams 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 Jordans 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 Jordans life that have shaped him in to historys greatest basketball player and the larger forces that have converged to make him the most famous living human being in the world.