Michael Jordon and The World He Made
In 'Playing for Keeps' David Halberstam takes the first full measure of Michael Jordon'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 book chronicles the forces in Jordon'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.
The product of tireless on-the-ground reporting suffused with the wisdom and imagination of one of our greatest writers, 'Playing for Keeps' is a book that, in defining Michael Jordon, also helps to define America in the Jordan Era.