A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton: A Profile of William Warren Bradley - Softcover

Mcphee, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374526893 ISBN 13: 9780374526894

Verlag: FARRAR STRAUSS & GIROUX, 1999

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When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were at the beginning of their careers. A Sense of Where You Are, McPhee''s first book, is about Bradley when he was the best basketball player Princeton had ever seen. McPhee delineates for the reader the training and techniques that made Bradley the extraordinary athlete he was, and this part of the book is a blueprint of superlative basketball. But athletic prowess alone would not explain Bradley''s magnetism, which is in the quality of the man himself—his self-discipline, his rationality, and his sense of responsibility. Here is a portrait of Bradley as he was in college, before his time with the New York Knicks and his election to the U.S. Senate—a story that suggests the abundant beginnings of his professional careers in sport and politics.

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John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published A Sense of Where You Are, his first book, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written nearly 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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A Sense of Where You Are

Bill Bradley at PrincetonBy McPhee, John

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Copyright © 1999 McPhee, John
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ISBN: 9780374526894

After watching Bradley play several times, even when he was eighteen, it seemed to me that I had been watching all the possibilities of the game that I had ever imagined, and then some. His play was integral. There was nothing missing. He not only worked hard on defense, for example, he worked hard on defense when the other team was hopelessly beaten. He did all kinds of things he didn't have to do simply because those were the dimensions of the game.

 

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• Verlag: FARRAR STRAUSS & GIROUX
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0374526893
• ISBN 13: 9780374526894
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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