Alexander Wolff

Big Game, Small World

A Basketball Adventure

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this revised and expanded twentieth anniversary edition of Big Game, Small World, Alexander Wolff travels the globe in search of what basketball can tell us about the world, and what the world can tell us about the game.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Anniversary, Twentieth Anniversary Edition, Revised and Expanded edition
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 735g
• ISBN-13: 9781478016151
• ISBN-10: 1478016159
• Artikelnr.: 63434861

Autorenporträt

Alexander Wolff is a journalist, editor, and author. Formerly a Senior Writer at Sports Illustrated, he is the author and coauthor of several books, including The Audacity of Hoop: Basketball and the Age of Obama, Raw Recruits (with Armen Keteyian), and Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Duke Edition  xiii
Prologue  1
Called for Traveling  3
Fall: Founding Myths, Conflicting Cultures
1. Almonte, Ontario: Duck on a Rock  13
2. Lithuania: Forest Brothers in Short Pants  26
3. Poland: The Sultans of Z¿oty  39
4. Switzerland: Please Do Not Air You Dirty Laundry  55
5. Celebration Florida: Communities of Three  66
6. Italy: Strength vs. Virtue  76
7. Sarajevo Airport: Prisoners of War  88
8. Bosnia: The Woman Who Sells Men  103
Winter: The American Game and Its Far-Flung Offspring
9. Peoria, Illinois: Crossover Dreamers  117
10. Eastern Kansas: Driving Mister John  128
11. El Paso, Texas: The Bear in Winter  138
12. Whiteriver, Arizona: Shoots from the Sky  152
13. Boone, North Carolina: Mayberry Friends  161
14. Ireland: To Build a Gym  172
15. Israel: The Long Arm of the Law of Return  184
16. The Philippines: Madness and Mimicry  200
17. China: Qiao Dan, Celestial Citizen  213
Spring: The Game Within
18. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Quaker Meetinghouse  231
19. Brazil: Women of the Laughing Blood  243
20. Des Moines, Iowa: Unguarded Moments  255
21. Japan: A Journey of a Thousand Miles, Begun with a Single Shot  264
22. Bhutan: Gross National Hoopiness  280
Summer: Fast Break to the Future
23. Washington, D.C.: Going to the Next Level  303
24. France: The “I Love This Game” Theory of Conflict Prevention  315
25. Angola: Lasme‘s Plane Will Be Arriving Shortly  323
26. Kansas City, Missouri: To Rest, Rather Than to Mischief  344
27. Princeton, New Jersey: Through the Back Door  352
Acknowledgments  361
Index  369