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"As a child of Birmingham, Alabama, who fell in love with sports in the 1980s thanks to Bo Jackson, I consider this one of the greatest sports biographies ever written. -- ""Joseph Goodman, author of We Want Bama"" Former classmates, agents, teammates, attorneys and so many others provide an array of vignettes that distinctly portray the human arc of one of sport's most mythical figures. -- ""Alec Lewis, Kansas City Royals beat writer for The Athletic"" Gets us closer than we've ever gotten to the truth of who Jackson really was and how he got to be that way. The book is appointment reading, an undeniable masterclass. -- ""Chris Herring, author of Blood in the Garden"""

[A] master storyteller. -- NPR.org, praise for the author

As a child of Birmingham, Alabama, who fell in love with sports in the 1980s thanks to Bo Jackson, I consider this one of the greatest sports biographies ever written. -- Joseph Goodman, author of We Want Bama Former classmates, agents, teammates, attorneys and so many others provide an array of vignettes that distinctly portray the human arc of one of sport's most mythical figures. -- Alec Lewis, Kansas City Royals beat writer for The Athletic Gets us closer than we've ever gotten to the truth of who Jackson really was and how he got to be that way. The book is appointment reading, an undeniable masterclass. -- Chris Herring, author of Blood in the Garden

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JEFF PEARLMAN is the New York Times best-selling author of eight books, including Football for a Buck, The Bad Guys Won!, Boys Will Be Boys, Showtime, Sweetness, and Gunslinger. He lives in Southern California with his wife, Catherine, and children, Casey and Emmett. He is the host of the Two Writers Slinging Yang podcast and blogs regularly at jeffpearlman.com. J.D. Jackson is a classically trained actor, a theater professor, an aspiring stage director, and an award-winning audiobook narrator. His television and film credits include roles on House, ER, Law & Order, Hack, Sherrybaby, Diary of a City Priest, and Lucky Number Slevin. The recipient of several audiobook awards for narration and an Odyssey Honor for G. Neri's Ghetto Cowboy, he was named one of AudioFile's Best Voices of the Year for 2012 and 2013.

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