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A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
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A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton Tapa dura - 1999

de John McPhee


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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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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.

Primera línea

My father, for fourteen years or so, has served as physician to United States Olympic teams.

Identificación de primeras ediciones

Farrar, Straus & Giroux published a First Edition, First Printing hardcover in New York, 1965.


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  • Título A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
  • Autor John McPhee
  • Encuadernación Tapa dura
  • Edición Third Edition
  • Páginas 144
  • Volúmenes 1
  • Idioma ENG
  • Editorial Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
  • Fecha de publicación June 30, 1999
  • Ilustrado
  • ISBN 9780374260996 / 0374260990
  • Peso 0.89 libras (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensiones 8.56 x 5.48 x 0.9 pulgadas (21.74 x 13.92 x 2.29 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published A Sense of Where You Are, his first book, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written nearly 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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