The Breaks of the Game Audiobook (Free)

A lot more than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country’s esteemed journalists and revered authorities on American life and background in the years since WWII. A Pulitzer Prize-winner for his ground-breaking confirming in the Vietnam War, Halberstam wrote a lot more than 20 books, the vast majority of them bestsellers. His work has stood the test of time and is among the most standard where all journalists measure themselves.

THE BRAND NEW York Times bestseller, now with a fresh about The Breaks of the Game introduction! The Breaks of the overall game focuses on one grim period (1979-80) in the life of the Bill Walton-led Portland Trail Blazers, a team that only three years before have been NBA champions.

The tactile authenticity of Halberstam’s understanding of the basketball world is unrivaled. Yet he is composing here about far more than just basketball. This is a tale about a place inside our culture where power, money, and skill collide and sometimes corrupt, a place where both national obsessions and naked greed are exposed. It’s about the influence of big mass media, the fans and the buzz they subsist on, the clash of ethics, the awful physical needs of modern sports (from drugs to body size), the unreal salaries, the conflicts of race and course, and the results of sport converted into mass entertainment and athletes transformed into superstars–all provided in a way that places the audience in the room and on the court, and The Breaks of the overall game in a group of its.