
The definitive Jordan biography that unveils the man behind the legend. Praised by NBA executives as "Pulitzer-worthy," Lazenby's masterpiece reveals the psychological forces driving basketball's greatest icon. What dark competitive fires fueled the marketing phenomenon who transformed global sports forever?
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Picture a crippled man with a bad leg navigating treacherous log rafts down North Carolina's Cape Fear River in the early 1900s. Dawson Jordan was short, stocky, and fearless-finding his only peace on those dangerous waters. Fast-forward sixty years, and his great-grandson would find similar sanctuary on basketball courts, transforming that inherited resilience into something the world had never seen. Michael Jordan didn't just play basketball; he became the standard by which all human excellence is measured. When Barack Obama handed him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, he captured it perfectly: "There is a reason you call someone 'the Michael Jordan of' something." But how does a boy from Wilmington, North Carolina become the measuring stick for greatness itself? The answer lies in generations of survival, family secrets, and a competitive fire so intense it could melt steel.