Bibliograph

I came as a shadow, an autobiography, John Thompson with Jesse Washington

Type

Label

I came as a shadow, an autobiography, John Thompson with Jesse Washington

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

I came as a shadow

Oclc number

1155714539

Responsibility statement

John Thompson with Jesse Washington

Sub title

an autobiography

Summary

After five decades at the center of race and sports in America, Thompson was ready to make the private public, and he completed this autobiography shortly before his death. His book drives us through his childhood under Jim Crow segregation to our current moment of racial reckoning. His life on and off the basketball court threw America's unresolved struggle with racial justice into sharp relief. -- adapted from jacket

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Anna and Rob -- The rabbit -- Red -- Providence -- The Celtics -- The game behind the game -- Seventy percent -- "My mortgage" -- Bay Baby, Big Sky, and the Big East -- Patrick -- The mountaintop -- Bet the jockey, not the horse -- Sometimes the lion kills you -- Rayful -- Proposition 42 -- Alonzo and Dikembe -- Inversion -- Nike -- Time to go -- To be a coach -- Do not forget

Target audience

adult

Classification