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A Sense of Where You Are: A Profile of William Warren Bradley
by John McPhee
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965. Hardcover. Stated First Edition, First Printing. 5 x 7.5in. x. 144pp. Publisher's cloth boards. NEAR FINE in Near Fine dust jacket. The book itself shows a neat small remainder dot at the bottom text-block edge, a former owner name of a Princeton graduate neatly on the front endpaper, else Fine/As New. The dust jacket shows the spine lightly tanned, else Fine/As New. As pictured.
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
- North Books: Used & Rare
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29941
- Title
- A Sense of Where You Are: A Profile of William Warren Bradley
- Author
- John McPhee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
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