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The Assist
Hoops, Hope, and the Game of Their Lives
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By Neil Swidey
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Revolving around fascinating, complex characters, The Assist is a captivating narrative of a basketball team in pursuit of a championship that also drills down into the legacy of desegregation and explores issues of education, family, and race. O’Brien is a middle-aged white guy coaching an all-black team playing in an all-white neighborhood that three decades ago was at the center of the busing wars dividing cities across the country — a time and place indelibly described in J. Anthony Lukas’s powerful book Common Ground. It’s the inspiring story of a man who makes a difference, and of boys surmounting nearly impossible odds; it is also the story of the ones who don’t make it, and why.
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A Washington Post Best Book of 2008 Selection
- On Sale
- Nov 11, 2008
- Page Count
- 392 pages
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs
- ISBN-13
- 9780786727025
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