Full name: Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made

Author: David Halberstam Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Sports, Biographies, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780767904445 0767904443

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 book 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. Similar books: Michael Jordan by Roland Lazenby The Jordan Rules by Sam Smith Let Me Tell You a Story by Red Auerbach Pistol by Mark Kriegel For the Love of the Game by Michael Jordan Drive by Larry Bird The Teammates by David Halberstam The Amateurs by David Halberstam A Season on the Brink by John Feinstein The Last Amateurs by John Feinstein A Sense of Where You Are by John McPhee A March to Madness by John Feinstein The Last Season by Phil Jackson The Punch by John Feinstein Sacred Hoops by Phil Jackson The Last Shot by Darcy Frey The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons Winning Ugly by Brad Gilbert Racing Through the Dark by David Millar Play Their Hearts Out by George Dohrmann