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Leatherette. Condizione: Very Good+. B&W Photographs & Drawings; One Folded Map (illustratore). owner's name and address on ffep, else text block clean and tight in lightly shelf-rubbed binding. 367 pp. w/index Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover.

HARDCOVER. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover edition. 367pp. Quarto hardbound, tight binding. Clean boards, sharp corners, light rubbing. Previous owner's name inked on front pastedown. Inteiror text clean throughout.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Fulbrook, III, John (jacket design); Baptist, Bill (jacket photograph); Crawford, Robert (author photograph) (illustratore). 1st Edition. As new condition dark gray boards, black spine, and orange spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by John Feinstein; Author Dedication; Introduction; Epilogue; Acknowledgments and Index. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates. "What he did for golf in the monumental bestseller A Good Walk Spoiled and for Indiana college basketball in A Season on the Brink, John Feinstein now does for basketball in the NCAA's most fiercely competitive conference - the ACC. The Atlantic Coast Conference has always produced champions. Spectacular players including Michael Jordan, Grant Hill, Christian Laettner, David Thompson, and Kenny Anderson got their start there; the conference is home to legendary coaches like North Carolina's Dean Smith and Duke's Mike Krzyzewski; and at least one ACC team has competed in the Final Four in fourteen of the last seventeen years. The league has won a total of seven national titles. In A March to Madness, John Feinstein follows all nine ACC teams through the unforgettable 1996-97 season and illuminates the almost inconceivable pressures on coaches and players in the conference. It was a year in which Dean Smith broke Adolph Rupp's all-time record for coaching victories, superstar Tim Duncan and coach Dave Odom attempted to lead Wake Forest to its first Final Four in thirty-five years, Mike Krzyzewski tried to fall in love with coaching again, and Carolina fought its way into another Final Four after a dismal start. Behind those stories, A March to Madness brings to light the hidden world of college basketball - the bitter rivalries between coaches, the toll of competition on marriages and careers, the difficulties coaches have in dealing with NBA-bound players, and much more. With unparalleled access to the ACC's coaches and players, John Feinstein takes us onto the courts, into the locker rooms, even into the coaches' homes, and paints a living portrait of how college basketball is coached and played at the highest level. This is an unforgettable and moving book, full of the unerring knowledge of what drives great coaches that makes John Feinstein the most popular sportswriter at work today." - from the inner front jacket flap. "Feinstein is a masterly storyteller." - Washington Post. "What Feinstein does better than anyone else is to make you understand the complex mix of psychology, group dynamics, and political pressures that make athletes tick." - Kircus Reviews.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 249 pp. ; illustrated with pen and ink drawings by Raymond Houhlihan; black cloth; no dustjacket ; name on front ep ; marks on contents page ; Contents; Why the boom? -- The Travail of WIlmer McLean -- House Divided -- Firsts -- The First Battle -- Mr. Lincoln's Beard -- The Blockade -- Music, Music -- War in the Air -- The Machine Gun -- A General's Grammar -- How Young They Were! -- Famous Onlookers -- Which War? -- John Brown Ignites a War -- The Widow Fritchie -- Imported Warriors -- The Rains Brothers -- Riots on the Home Front -- The Inner Man -- Was Stonewall Jackson a Hypochondriac? -- The Marvelous Ram Albermarle -- Some Oddities of This Odd War -- Spies at Work -- The Gettysburg Address -- The Hero of Gettysburg -- Sex in the Civil War -- The Submarine Hunley -- Lincoln's Subs -- What They Said About US Grant -- Dixie -- Symbols of the Lost Cause -- The Perfect Battle -- The Human Side of Robert E Lee -- Aftermath-at-Arms -- The Price in Blood -- The War is Not Over -- Atrocities -- The Folklore. ; some marks ; G. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Good Condition. Leathery HC. Moderate wear. Binding fairly tight, pages slightly age toned. Pictures available upon request.