The first book from the legendary New Yorker writer John McPhee, tells about Bill Bradley when he was the best basketball player Princeton had ever seen.
When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were at the beginning of their careers. In A Sense of Where You Are,
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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Better. ‘A Sense of Where You Are’ (basketball) and ‘Levels of the Game’ (tennis) by the incomparable master, John McPhee. And if fly fishing is sport, of course, ‘A River Runs Through It.’ Norman Maclean. https://t.co/sh1RSQsRUb
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Just finished John McPhee's "A Sense of Where You Are," and I know that many basketball fans revere this book, but I found it rather one-note in its hero-worship of Bill Bradley and not particularly illuminating about the game or Bradley's place within it.
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@sebastianparamo Denice Frohman is working on a series of basketball poems — one of which is on the NYTimes Also, Ross Gay’s Be Holding and John McPhee’s profile of Bill Bradley, “A Sense of Where You Are”