A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton

A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
by John McPhee

A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
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Author: John McPhee
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-06-30
ISBN: 0374526893
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Summary: 5 Stars

John McPhee starting out as a writer profiles Bill Bradley and his Princeton Tigers basketball team, through the Ivy League and into the NCAA Tournament, leading up to Princeton making it to the Final Four Bradley's senior season. In the background and unmentioned is John Wooden, whose UCLA team wins the tournament, Wooden's second of ten NCAA championships. Wooden praised Bradley, who along with Jerry Lucas and Wooden himself was the ideal student-athlete. All three were consummate team players.

Included is Bradley's famous "creed," "When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win." (p. 65) Like Wooden, his success came from being far ahead of most of the competition on the crucial element of practice. Bradley, deeply analytical, is right out of The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle. He did have, as Lucas did, superior eyesight, but one meaning of the title of the book comes from his learning to make a shot without looking at the basket, which he frequently did--a shot for which there is no name.

One of the greatest if not the greatest sports books I've read.

Summary of A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton

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.
 
 

First published in 1965, A Sense of Where You Are is the literary equivalent of a harmonic convergence, a remarkable confluence of two talents--John McPhee and Bill Bradley--at the beginning of what would prove to be long and distinguished careers. While McPhee would blossom into one of the best nonfiction writers of the last 35 years, Bradley segued from an all-American basketball player at Princeton, to Rhodes Scholar, to NBA star, to three terms in the U.S. Senate. McPhee noticed greatness in Bradley from the start; the book is an extension of a lengthy magazine profile McPhee wrote early in Bradley's senior year; the title comes from Bradley always knowing his position in relation to the basket. What's so noteworthy about the book is the greatness it promised--both for writer and for subject, a greatness both have delivered through the years again and again.

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