A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
6 best books like A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton (John McPhee): Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year, The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America, American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump, Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber, K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches, Life on the Run
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
| Author | Anne Lamott |
| ISBN | 1400079098 |
The most honest, wildly enjoyable book written about motherhood is surely Anne Lamott's account of her son Sam's first year. A gifted writer and teacher, Lamott (Crooked Little Heart) is a single mother and ex-alcoholic with a pleasingly warped social circle and a remarkably tolerant religion to...
The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America
| Author | Tommy Tomlinson |
| ISBN | 1501111612 |
The government definition of obesity is a body mass index of 30 or more. My BMI is 60.7. My shirts are size XXXXXXL, which the big-and-tall stores shorten to 6X. I’m 6-foot-1, or 73 inches tall. My waist is 60 inches around. I’m nearly a sphere.
Those are the numbers. This is how it feels…
So...
American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
Politico Magazine’s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider’s look at the making of the modern Republican Party—how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents:...
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
| Author | Mike Isaac |
| ISBN | 0393652246 |
In June 2017, Travis Kalanick, the hard-charging CEO of Uber, was ousted in a boardroom coup that capped a brutal year for the transportation giant. Uber had catapulted to the top of the tech world, yet for many came to symbolize everything wrong with Silicon Valley.
Award-winning New...
K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches
| Author | Tyler Kepner |
| ISBN | 1984883291 |
From
The New York Times
baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching, based on years of archival research and interviews with more than three hundred people from Hall of Famers to the stars of today
The baseball...
| Author | Bill Bradley |
| ISBN | 0679762086 |
Almost two decades after its original publication and more than fifteen years after its author retired from the New York Knicks to become a United States senator, Bill Bradley's account of twenty days in a pro basketball season remains a classic in the literature of sports, unparalleled in its candor...
