Melissa Isaacson

Gebundenes Buch

State

A Team, a Triumph, a Transformation

Beschreibung

A powerful first-person story of the 1970s: an unlikely group of high-school girls come together to win one of their state's first-ever girls' basketball championships against the backdrop of radical social change ushered in by the passing of Title IX in 1972, as told by trailblazing sports journalist Isaacson.

Autor

Melissa Isaacson is an award-winning sportswriter, author, and public speaker. In more than thirty years on the job, she has covered every major US sports championship as well as the Olympics. She has written for numerous publications, including long tenures at such institutions as ESPN and the Chicago Tribune. She was the Tribune's first woman columnist and beat writer on the Bulls and Bears, and she covered the Michael Jordan-led Bulls over their six NBA titles. She is currently on the faculty of Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism and lives in the Chicago area.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Agate Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 142mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781572842663
• ISBN-10: 1572842660
• Artikelnr.: 53302936