Alexander Wolff

The Audacity of Hoop: Basketball and the Age of Obama

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Alexander Wolff is a senior writer at Sports Illustrated and the New York Times author of Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 264mm x 210mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 951g
• ISBN-13: 9781439913093
• ISBN-10: 1439913099
• Artikelnr.: 42650961

Inhaltsangabe

1 Basketball Jones
2 Hoop Dreams from His Father
  Gaming the President Out
  The First Brother-in-Law
3 Running Game
  “The Little Brother I Never Had”
  Obama, One-on-One
  Players’ Choice
4 Power, Forward
  Baracketology
  Hardwood Cabinet
  The Secretary of Schoolin’ People 
  Center Circles 
  Lip Service 
  Ding-Dong Diplomacy 
  The World’s Most Elegant Locker Room 
  The Loyal Opposition 
  The Inevitability of Golf
5 The Game in the Age of Obama
  Shooting the First Shooter
Timeline
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index