Jumpman: The Making and Meaning of Michael Jordan - Couverture rigide

Smith, Johnny

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1541675657 ISBN 13 : 9781541675650

Editeur : Basic Books, 2023

Synopsis

How Michael Jordan’s path to greatness was shaped by race, politics, and the consequences of fame

To become the most revered basketball player in America, it wasn’t enough for Michael Jordan to merely excel on the court. He also had to become something he never intended: a hero.
 
Reconstructing the defining moment of Jordan’s career—winning his first NBA championship during the 1990-1991 season—sports historian Johnny Smith examines Jordan’s ubiquitous rise in American culture and the burden he carried as a national symbol of racial progress. Jumpman reveals how Jordan maintained a “mystique” that allowed him to seem more likable to Americans who wanted to believe race no longer mattered. In the process of achieving greatness, he remade himself into a paradox: universally known, yet distant and unknowable.
 
Blending dramatic game action with grand evocations of the social forces sweeping the early nineties, Jumpman demonstrates how the man and the myth together created the legend we remember today. 

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Johnny Smith is the J.C. "Bud" Shaw Professor of Sports History at Georgia Tech. He is the author of Jumpman, and co-author of The Fight of His Life, War Fever, A Season in the Sun, and Blood Brothers. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Basic Books
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1541675657
• ISBN 13: 9781541675650
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
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• Personne responsable: non disponible