Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made
Written by David Halberstam
Narrated by J.D. Jackson
5/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this audiobook
From The Breaks of the Game to Summer of '49, David Halberstam has brought the perspective of a great historian, the inside 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 sport. With Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls, he has given himself his greatest challenge and produced his greatest triumph.
In Playing 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 audiobook 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.
David Halberstam
David Halberstam was one of America's most distinguished journalists and historians, a man whose newspaper reporting and books have helped define the era we live in. He graduated from Harvard in 1955, took his first job on the smallest daily in Mississippi, and then covered the early civil rights struggle for the Nashville Tennessean. He joined The New York Times in 1960, went overseas almost immediately, first to the Congo and then to Vietnam. His early pessimistic dispatches from Vietnam won him the Pulitzer in 1964 at the age of thirty. His last twelve books, starting with The Best and the Brightest and including The Powers That Be, The Reckoning, and The Fifties, have all been national bestsellers. Thirty-eight years after Mr. Halberstam won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting in Vietnam, War in a Time of Peace was the runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize. He died in April 2007.
More audiobooks from David Halberstam
Summer of '49 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Firehouse Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Red Rose Crew: A True Story Of Women, Winning, And The Water Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Next Century Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Medal Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to Playing for Keeps
Related audiobooks
Sports Superstars: Ten Legendary Athletes on and off the Field Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Baseball Rebels: The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Gold Medal Strategies: Business Lessons From America's Miracle Team Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5America’s Greatest Moments In Sports: Legendary Feats of Strength, Endurance, and Will Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsI Never Played the Game Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Historical Sport Events Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWillie Mays: The Life, The Legend Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Innocents: The Collision of the Turbulent Sixties and the Los Angeles Dodgers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leo Durocher: Baseball's Prodigal Son Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Miracle in Lake Placid: The Greatest Hockey Story Ever Told Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Presidents and the Pastime: The History of Baseball and the White House Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5GameDay: The Untold Story of College Football Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRussell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the 20th Century's Greatest Champion Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/550 Years, 50 Moments: The Most Unforgettable Plays in Super Bowl History Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/51996: A Biography - Reliving the Legend-Packed, Dynasty-Stacked, Most Iconic Sports Year Ever Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGame Changers: Dean Smith, Charlie Scott, and the Era That Transformed a Southern College Town Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mad Dog!: Detroit Tiger Dick McAuliffe Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGlory Days: The Summer of 1984 and the 90 Days That Changed Sports and Culture Forever Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Breaking Through the Lines: The Marion Motley Story Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMemories from the Microphone: A Century of Baseball Broadcasting Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Common Enemies: Georgetown Basketball, Miami Football, and the Racial Transformation of College Sports Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPower Ball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Baseball Memories & Dreams: Reflections on the National Pastime from the Baseball Hall of Fame Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDinner with DiMaggio: Memories of An American Hero Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Boxing Kings: When American Heavyweights Ruled the Ring Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Moment in Time: An American Story of Baseball, Heartbreak, and Grace Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Tough Luck: Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the Rise of the Modern NFL Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Basketball For You
It's Hard for Me to Live with Me: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5LeBron Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Unguarded Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wake Up With Purpose!: What I’ve Learned in my First Hundred Years Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I Came As a Shadow: An Autobiography Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons Of A Hardwood Warrior Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Kobe Bryant: The Inspirational Story of One of the Greatest Basketball Players of All Time! Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When the Game Was Ours Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Coach K: The Rise and Reign of Mike Krzyzewski Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Power of Negative Thinking: An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5KG: A to Z: An Uncensored Encyclopedia of Life, Basketball, and Everything in Between Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wish It Lasted Forever: Life with the Larry Bird Celtics Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Back From the Dead Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Golden: The Miraculous Rise of Steph Curry Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5More Than a Game Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise: Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Last Enforcer: Outrageous Stories From the Life and Times of One of the NBA's Fiercest Competitors Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the New Innovation Era Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Black Market: An Insider's Journey into the High-Stakes World of College Basketball Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Toughness: Developing True Strength On and Off the Court Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Season on the Brink Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Education of Kendrick Perkins: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Playing for Keeps
1 rating0 reviews