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Author: Scott Ellsworth
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Imprint: Little Brown and Company
Dimensions:
Width: 16.30cm
, Height: 3.80cm
, Length: 23.90cm
Weight: 0.658kg
ISBN: 9780316434867
ISBN 10: 0316434868
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 18 February 2020
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
A fascinating new work of cultural and sports history.... Through a mixture of oral history and archival research, Ellsworth captures the rich human details of a whole generation of largely forgotten basketball players. --Nick Romeo, Boston Globe Praise for The Secret Game As a member of the Duke community, I have long been aware and proud of the secret game. Now Scott Ellsworth has brought it to light. The true story behind this extraordinary, long-buried game goes beyond any one school or any one state. The Secret Game is a triumphant look at how basketball has broken down barriers, and helped create a new kind of America. Every citizen needs to know this story--and to know it now. --Mike Krzyzewski, head coach of Duke Men's Basketball A historian with the soul of a poet, Ellsworth offers a remarkably nuanced, vibrant, and eloquent account of life in the South during WWII, and his portraits of the principal players in this secret drama are multitextured and complex. --Wes Lukowsky, Booklist (starred review) There is a basketball on the cover, but this is much more than a story about basketball. Yes, there was a ground-breaking basketball game played in Durham, N.C., seven decades ago, and it is recounted in great detail by Scott Ellsworth. But what we really have here is indispensable social history. White people need to read this book. People of color need to read this book. Whoever you are, you need to read this book. --Bob Ryan, Boston Globe, ESPN, author of Scribe: My Life in Sports
Vivid, novelistic prose. --Kirkus An exceptional account of trailblazing mountaineers who persevered during a turbulent time in history. --Booklist
Author Information
Scott Ellsworth is the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Game, which was the winner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. He has written about American history for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. Formerly a historian at the Smithsonian Institution, he is the author of Death in a Promised Land, his groundbreaking account of the 1921 Tulsa race riot. He lives with his wife and twin sons in Ann Arbor, where he teaches at the University of Michigan.
