Título: Five Banners: Inside the Duke Basketball Dynasty
Autor: John Feinstein
Sinopse: On an early morning in 1983, after the worst loss of his career (109-66 against Virginia) and amid the cries of powerful athletics boosters calling for him to be fired, Duke men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski went to breakfast at 2:00 a.m. to vent with friends. Sports journalist and Duke alumnus John Feinstein was at the table. For Coach K, "the night at Denny’s” would mark a turning point in his career and for the team, and eight years later, the Blue Devils would win their first NCAA national championship.
In Five Banners, Feinstein tells the inside history of Coach K’s forty-two-year career at Duke and its five NCAA championships, from the first, against Kansas in 1991, to the most recent, in 2015 against Wisconsin. With unparalleled access to Coach K, the team, and its staff, Feinstein takes readers on a mesmerizing ride into the locker room and onto the court. Full of intimate details, personal memories, and previously untold on- and off-court stories, it is a book that only Feinstein could write.
Feinstein explores a basketball legacy that begins with his days as an undergrad Duke Chronicle reporter covering coaches Bucky Waters and Neill McGeachy (who went 10-16 in one year as head coach), includes the “drought years” of the 1980s and the glory of the teams of the 1990s, and moves into the present day with Jon Scheyer’s succession. Drawing on new interviews, Feinstein highlights the voices of Grant Hill, Nolan Smith, Christian Laettner, Tommy Amaker, and Bobby Hurley, who each bring new insights on the championship years.
Throughout, Feinstein unveils the momentous force of college basketball as a game of intense relationships and intimate conversations. Candid, revelatory, and engrossing, Five Banners is an essential book for all Duke fans and anyone who loves the college game.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Five Banners: Inside the Duke Basketball Dynasty”, de John Feinstein, publicado pela editora Duke University Press Books, em 2024 e com 208 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Duke University Press Books
Páginas: 208
Ano: 2024-10-15
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1478026715
ISBN13: 9781478026716
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Duke University Press Books oferecem uma experiência de leitura que combina rigor acadêmico com narrativas que exploram tensões sociais, culturais e políticas profundas. O catálogo privilegia obras que abordam questões de identidade, poder e resistência, muitas vezes a partir de perspectivas históricas, antropológicas e culturais. É comum encontrar narrativas que dialogam com temas como raça, gênero, sexualidade e violência estrutural, apresentadas com um tom crítico e reflexivo. O ritmo das obras varia entre análises densas e relatos mais próximos do testemunho ou da etnografia, com uma linguagem que pode ser tanto teórica quanto acessível, dependendo do foco. A diversidade do catálogo se manifesta no contraste entre estudos que investigam tradições culturais e movimentos sociais e outros que examinam fenômenos contemporâneos, como a cultura pop e as dinâmicas urbanas.
