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Michael Jordan: A Biography
An updated edition of the story of Jordan's life chronicles his nine-year stardom with the Chicago Bulls, the shocking murder of his father, his disappointing retirement from basketball, and his surprising baseball contract. Reissue.
176 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published December 1, 1991
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About the author
Bill Gutman
244 books13 followersBill Gutman is the author of more than two hundred books for both children and adults in a writing career that has spanned some five decades. His first book was an adult-level biography of former basketball star Pistol Pete Maravich, and since then he has written children's and young adult biographies and profiles of many prominent sports stars such as Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Shaquille O'Neal, Ken Griffey, Jr., Bo Jackson, Brett Favre and many others.
Some of his adult books include a biography of former football coach Bill Parcells, Parcells: A Biograpy; When the Cheering Stops, interviews with some 25 former baseball players from the 1940s through the 1960s on life after baseball; Won For All: The Inside Story of the New England Patriots' Improbable Run to the Super Bowl, written with former linebacker and then Patriots assistant coach Pepper Johnson; Twice Around the Bases, written with former big league manager Kevin Kennedy; The Giants Win the Pennant! The Giants Win the Pennant! which was the story of the 1951 pennant race between the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers, written with home run hero Bobby Thomson; Miracle Year, Amazing Mets, Super Jets, the story of both New York teams winning championship in 1969; Being Extreme, interviews with 22 of the most daring, high risk athletes in the world of mountain climbing, BASE jumping, ski diving, big wave surfing rock climbing, extreme skiing and snowboarding. Of more recent vintage is What if the Babe Had Kept His Red Sox: And Other Fascinating Alternate Histories from the World of Sports, a book of What Ifs. His most recent sports book is a young adult biography of Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge called All Rise: The Aaron Judge Story.
Bill's current passion is The Mike Fargo Mysteries, a series of novels and novellas about a tough detective working in the New York City of the 1920. The novel, Murder on Murderer's Row is available as both an ebook and in paperback on Amazon, an ebook on other venues. The novellas, Death of a Flapper, Murder on Broadway, Seven Days to Murder and The Grab-A-Cab Murder are currently available as ebooks. A sixth book, Roaring Twenties Cop, Mike Fargo's Own Story is told in Fargo's words and serves to bring the lead character of the series to life, as he talks about his childhood on Staten Island, the reason he became a cop, the New York City of the 1920s and some of his cases. The book serves as an introduction to the series and is available for free on the Amazon, Barnes and Noble, iBooks, Kobo and Smashwords websites.
And hopefully there is much more to come.
Some of his adult books include a biography of former football coach Bill Parcells, Parcells: A Biograpy; When the Cheering Stops, interviews with some 25 former baseball players from the 1940s through the 1960s on life after baseball; Won For All: The Inside Story of the New England Patriots' Improbable Run to the Super Bowl, written with former linebacker and then Patriots assistant coach Pepper Johnson; Twice Around the Bases, written with former big league manager Kevin Kennedy; The Giants Win the Pennant! The Giants Win the Pennant! which was the story of the 1951 pennant race between the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers, written with home run hero Bobby Thomson; Miracle Year, Amazing Mets, Super Jets, the story of both New York teams winning championship in 1969; Being Extreme, interviews with 22 of the most daring, high risk athletes in the world of mountain climbing, BASE jumping, ski diving, big wave surfing rock climbing, extreme skiing and snowboarding. Of more recent vintage is What if the Babe Had Kept His Red Sox: And Other Fascinating Alternate Histories from the World of Sports, a book of What Ifs. His most recent sports book is a young adult biography of Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge called All Rise: The Aaron Judge Story.
Bill's current passion is The Mike Fargo Mysteries, a series of novels and novellas about a tough detective working in the New York City of the 1920. The novel, Murder on Murderer's Row is available as both an ebook and in paperback on Amazon, an ebook on other venues. The novellas, Death of a Flapper, Murder on Broadway, Seven Days to Murder and The Grab-A-Cab Murder are currently available as ebooks. A sixth book, Roaring Twenties Cop, Mike Fargo's Own Story is told in Fargo's words and serves to bring the lead character of the series to life, as he talks about his childhood on Staten Island, the reason he became a cop, the New York City of the 1920s and some of his cases. The book serves as an introduction to the series and is available for free on the Amazon, Barnes and Noble, iBooks, Kobo and Smashwords websites.
And hopefully there is much more to come.
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June 1, 2018
I really liked this book because I wanted to know how Jordan became the greatest player.
It's about his childhood of playing basketball and baseball.
I would give this book to anyone who likes biography.
It's about his childhood of playing basketball and baseball.
I would give this book to anyone who likes biography.
October 1, 2013
The first thing I like about this book is that it starts with how Michael Jordan good at first and how he became the greatest player of all time. Michael Jordan career in high school he was good but not good enough. He failed a couple times to get where he is right now. By the end of his career he had won 6 NBA Championship rings. I know this because it talks about his life and how he is right now. The theme to this book is his hardwork. He is known for all his accomplishments, which is his hardwork and excellence on the court.
What I dislike about this book is that I think Bill Gutman should have written how the college teams recruiting him. I wondered if college teams came and watched his games
The setting is an important aspect of this book. The setting is the basketball court because that was where he made magic and his mark on history. This book has a couple settings: North Carolina, Chicago. These places are where he started and ended his basketball career.
I think a lot of people would like this book because it imforms you that people who are the greatest in sports fail plenty of times to be great but learn from their mistakes.
What I dislike about this book is that I think Bill Gutman should have written how the college teams recruiting him. I wondered if college teams came and watched his games
The setting is an important aspect of this book. The setting is the basketball court because that was where he made magic and his mark on history. This book has a couple settings: North Carolina, Chicago. These places are where he started and ended his basketball career.
I think a lot of people would like this book because it imforms you that people who are the greatest in sports fail plenty of times to be great but learn from their mistakes.
May 20, 2024
Is Michael Jordan the best basketball player? Is he really the greatest of all time? Those are the questions I was asking myself after reading this incredible book. Not only did it give me knowledge on Michael Jordan but it also gave me knowledge about the game of basketball. It showed what kind of mentality it takes to be considered the best. It also gave stories like Michaels experiences with college basketball and even goes further into telling us about his highschool career, which i found very interesting myself being a highschool basketball player. Overall I would highly recommend this book and will be looking forward to the Michael Jordan Documentary on Netflix coming out later this year!
November 27, 2018
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April 5, 2013
Brandon Hepp
Ms. Emmett
English 10
5 April 2013
The non-fiction book "Michael Jordan: A Biography" by Bill Gutman is a very interesting biography of the life and career of the great Michael Jordan. The book recaps the highs and the lows of the life of the infamous Michael Jordan. Michael grew up in bBrooklyn were he eventually moved to Wilmington, North Carolina. At first, the best basketball player to ever play the game struggled as a kid to make his 7th, 8th, and even 9th grade basketball team. After a lot of hard work and dedication, Michael Jordan finally made the team as a 10th grader were he eventually went on to be a McDonalds All-American and play on the court he would eventually play his NBA career on in Chicago. He eventually went on to play at the University of North Carolina. The funny thing is, the best player to ever live even got cut in high school. Michael played at UNC were he won a national championship and eventually was the 3rd overall pick in the NBA draft. The book recaps the 6 championships that he won with the Chicago Bulls along with other things about the personal life of Michael Jordan.
As a reader of this book, you can learn a lot of new information. First, the readers can learn the information about Michael as he grew up on the streets of New York city, where he eventually moved to NC and had a bad struggle. You can also learn some very interesting information about how he retired from the NBA 3 times before he finally came to the conclusion to finally retire, you can learn why he retired all three of these times in this book. This book gives you a great information on Michael going through college and his NBA with information that you may not of known about Michael Jordan. Last, the most important information you can get from this book is that he has a section in it about how you should never give up on your dream and the struggle you did not known about Jordan.
I would recommend this book to my peers for a few reasons.The first reason that i think my peers should read this book is because it can inspire many young people that have not achieved there goals, but this book can help you get motivated to stay with it, and never give up. Another reason i would recommend this book, is because it is a very interesting non fiction book to read, where you can learn a lot of information on one of the games best. These are too good reasons why you should read this great book.
Ms. Emmett
English 10
5 April 2013
The non-fiction book "Michael Jordan: A Biography" by Bill Gutman is a very interesting biography of the life and career of the great Michael Jordan. The book recaps the highs and the lows of the life of the infamous Michael Jordan. Michael grew up in bBrooklyn were he eventually moved to Wilmington, North Carolina. At first, the best basketball player to ever play the game struggled as a kid to make his 7th, 8th, and even 9th grade basketball team. After a lot of hard work and dedication, Michael Jordan finally made the team as a 10th grader were he eventually went on to be a McDonalds All-American and play on the court he would eventually play his NBA career on in Chicago. He eventually went on to play at the University of North Carolina. The funny thing is, the best player to ever live even got cut in high school. Michael played at UNC were he won a national championship and eventually was the 3rd overall pick in the NBA draft. The book recaps the 6 championships that he won with the Chicago Bulls along with other things about the personal life of Michael Jordan.
As a reader of this book, you can learn a lot of new information. First, the readers can learn the information about Michael as he grew up on the streets of New York city, where he eventually moved to NC and had a bad struggle. You can also learn some very interesting information about how he retired from the NBA 3 times before he finally came to the conclusion to finally retire, you can learn why he retired all three of these times in this book. This book gives you a great information on Michael going through college and his NBA with information that you may not of known about Michael Jordan. Last, the most important information you can get from this book is that he has a section in it about how you should never give up on your dream and the struggle you did not known about Jordan.
I would recommend this book to my peers for a few reasons.The first reason that i think my peers should read this book is because it can inspire many young people that have not achieved there goals, but this book can help you get motivated to stay with it, and never give up. Another reason i would recommend this book, is because it is a very interesting non fiction book to read, where you can learn a lot of information on one of the games best. These are too good reasons why you should read this great book.
November 11, 2010
I think that the book was a great book to read it is all about him doing sports like baseball,basketball,and golf and his life and he got injured in one of his games
December 16, 2010
ii think this book was a very good book about michael jordan. I am excited to keep reading cause this book was very good and its more like it.
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September 14, 2011it was good
November 17, 2016
the book started of pretty slow. When michael got into college it started to be okay. I'm not really a fan of basketball so it was only decent. I recomend this book to anyone who like basketball.
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