A Sense of Where You Are: A Profile of William Warren Bradley [Hardcover]
by John McPhee
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Stamford, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good. 1965 First Printing, first edition light shelfwear to price clipped jacket (spine sunfaded) and very light speckle to page edges, tight binding text unmarked. Author's first book. Please email for photos.
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Griffin Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20583
- Title
- A Sense of Where You Are: A Profile of William Warren Bradley [Hardcover]
- Author
- John McPhee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Date Published
- 1965
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- SENSE WHERE YOU ARE: PROFILE WILLIAM WARREN BRADLEY
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