LeBron / Jeff Benedict.
LeBron James is the greatest basketball player of the twenty-first century, and he's in the conversation with Michael Jordon as the greatest of all time. The reigning king of the game and the first active NBA player to become a billionaire, LeBron wears the crown like he was born with it. Yet his ascent has been anything but effortless and predetermined - the truth is vastly more interesting than that. What makes LeBron's story so compelling is how he won his destiny despite overwhelmingly long odds, in a drama worthy of a Dickens novel. As a child, he was a scared and lonely little boy living in a nomadic existence in Akron, Ohio. His mother, who had LeBron when she was sixteen, would sometimes leave him on his own. Destitute and fatherless, he missed close to one hundred days of school in the fourth grade. Desperate, his mother placed him with a family that gave him stability and put a basketball in his hands. LeBron tells the full, riveting saga of how a child adrift found the will to become a titan. Jeff Benedict, the most celebrated sports biographer of our time, paints a vivid picture of LeBron's epic origin story, showing the gradual rise of a star who, surrounded by a tight-knit group of teenage friends and adult mentors, accelerated into a speeding comet during high school. Today LeBron produces Hollywood films and television shows, has a social media presence that includes more than one hundred million followers, engages in political activism, takes outspoken stances on racism and social injustice, and transforms lives through his visionary philanthropy. He went from a lost boy in Akron to a beloved hero who uses his fortune to educate underprivileged children and lift up needy families - and brought home Cleveland's first NBA championship.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982110895
- ISBN: 1982110899
- Physical Description: x, 557 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Avid Reader Press, 2023.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-529) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | What just happened? -- Glo and Bron -- If you pass the ball -- We all we got -- The freshman -- The most crooked street in America -- The lad -- A different floor -- Get in the car -- Hustle -- Prime time -- Trading places -- Higher education -- In the room -- Crazy right now -- Pressure -- No hard feelings -- I'm older now -- It's just basketball -- The four LeBrons -- The lone cavalier -- One for the ages -- Kingdom come -- Fashion -- Beats -- Miracles aren't enough -- The summer of LeBron -- "Hester Prynne in a headband" -- A real dark place -- The takeover -- Getting a grip -- Who am I to hold a grudge? -- Power broker -- Deliverance -- Believeland -- U bum -- A man in full -- Epilogue. |
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Subject: | James, LeBron. African American basketball players > Biography. Basketball players > United States > Biography. |
Genre: | Biographies. |
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