Offering profiles of the athletes we love, this book shows how they live their lives and how we live out and define American culture by the way we come to understand their lives in and out of the halls of play.
Larry Platt is Editor-in-Chief of Philadelphia Magazine. His work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Playboy, and Salon.com, among other publications. The author, most recently, of Only the Strong Survive: The Odyssey of Allen Iverson, he lives in the Philadelphia area.
