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Jumpman

The Making and Meaning of Michael Jordan

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Jumpman

Auteur(s): Johnny Smith
Narrateur(s): Gregory Jones
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How Michael Jordan’s path to greatness was shaped by race, politics, and the consequences of fame

To become the most revered basketball player in America, it wasn’t enough for Michael Jordan to merely excel on the court. He also had to become something he never intended: a hero.

Reconstructing the defining moment of Jordan’s career—winning his first NBA championship during the 1990-1991 season—sports historian Johnny Smith examines Jordan’s ubiquitous rise in American culture and the burden he carried as a national symbol of racial progress. Jumpman reveals how Jordan maintained a “mystique” that allowed him to seem more likable to Americans who wanted to believe race no longer mattered. In the process of achieving greatness, he remade himself into a paradox: universally known, yet distant and unknowable.

Blending dramatic game action with grand evocations of the social forces sweeping the early nineties, Jumpman demonstrates how the man and the myth together created the legend we remember today.

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Ce que les critiques en disent

“Other Michael Jordan books have shown the whats and wheres and whys. Now Jumpman, an essential addition to the canon, explains what it all cost.”—Wright Thompson, senior writer, ESPN.com

“In Jumpman, author Johnny Smith distills the mythology of a sports legend and gives us a story not only about His Airness, but, more broadly, about America.”—Gary M. Pomerantz, author of The Last Pass
“Jumpman is a thought-provoking portrait of the 1990s culture that shaped Michael Jordan into one of the most talked-about athletes the world has ever known. Thanks to Smith for shedding new light on the man, the myth, the legend—the GOAT.”—Timothy Bella, author of Barkley
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This was a very good look at Michael Jordan from his upbringing to the 1990-1991 championship season and a year or so after that. I felt it was well researched but mostly a culmination of much information about MJ that is already out there.

If you are looking for a good refresher on Michael Jordan this would be it. Nothing too in depth really but a lot of good information. 4 stars easy as a book.

Where I listened to this as an Audible Recording I can say the Narrator Gregory Jones did a decent job and the story, while not captivating, because it was about Michael Jordan it kept me interested. 4 stars as well.

Very Good Look At Jordan up to 1992

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