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The Audacity of Hoop : Basketball and the Age of Obama

Title: The Audacity of Hoop : Basketball and the Age of Obama / Alexander Wolff.
Author: Wolff, Alexander, 1957-
Publication: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2016.

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Description

181 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 21 x 27 cm

Summary

"While basketball didn't take up residence in the White House in January 2009, the game nonetheless played an outsized role in forming the man who did. In The Audacity of Hoop, celebrated sportswriter Alexander Wolff examines Barack Obama, the person and president, by the light of basketball. This game helped Obama explore his identity, keep a cool head, impress his future wife, and define himself as a candidate. Wolff chronicles Obama's love of the game from age 10, on the campaign trail-- where it eventually took on talismanic meaning-- and throughout his two terms in office. More than 125 photographs illustrate Obama dribbling, shooting free throws, playing pickup games, cooling off with George Clooney, challenging his special assistant Reggie Love for a rebound, and taking basketball to political meetings. There is also an assessment of Obama's influence on the NBA, including a dawning political consciousness in the league's locker rooms. Sidebars reveal the evolution of the president's playing style, 'Baracketology'-- a not-entirely-scientific art of filling out the commander in chief's NCAA tournament bracket-- and a timeline charts Obama's personal and professional highlights. Equal parts biographical sketch, political narrative, and cultural history, The Audacity of Hoop shows how the game became a touchstone in Obama's exercise of the power of the presidency."--Dust jacket flap.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-174) and index.

Contents

Basketball Jones -- Hoop dreams from his father. Gaming the President out ; The First Brother-in-law -- Running game. "The little brother I never had" ; Obama, one-on-one ; Players' choice -- Power, forward. Baracketology ; Hardwood cabinet ; The Secretary of Schoolin' People ; Center circles ; Lip service ; Ding-dong diplomacy ; The world's most elegant locker room ; The loyal opposition ; The inevitability of golf -- The game in the Age of Obama. Shooting the First Shooter.

Call Number

Sc+ D 16-988

ISBN

9781439913093 (hardback)
1439913099 (hardback)

LCCN

2015013672

OCLC

907651173

Author

Wolff, Alexander, 1957- author.

Title

The Audacity of Hoop : Basketball and the Age of Obama / Alexander Wolff.

Publisher

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-174) and index.

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

JOURNO ON OBAMA'S LOVE OF BASKETBALL & RESULTING EFFECT ON THE GAME IN CONTEMP. U.S. ILLUSTRATED.

Research Call Number

Sc+ D 16-988

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