Description: The Harlem Globetrotters have long been a staple of American basketball. However, their origins and their renaissance are largely unknown. They began not in Harlem, but Chicago's South Side as the brainchild of Abe Saperstein. The team sustained the early days of the NBA only to be overshadowed by it, yet ultimately reemerging as national and global stars.
Brief description:
Ben Green is the highly acclaimed author of Before His Time (the subject of a PBS documentary), The Soldier of Fortune Murders (which sold more than 100,000 copies and was the basis for a CBS miniseries), and Finest Kind. A former Bread Loaf Fellow, Green lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife, Tracie, and two daughters, Emily and Eliza. He is a graduate of Brandeis University and is on the faculty of Florida State University.
Review Quotes:
"...an ambitious, engaging book on the history of the team and how they endured a range of barriers...moves seamlessly between the past and present-day Globetrotters." - Black Issues Book Review
"...an ambitious, engaging book on the history of the Globetrotters." - Black Issues Book Review
"Captures the drama of this rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-riches story, and gives the reader the sense of being there. - New York Times