{"product_id":"lebron-jeff-benedict-9781797152608","title":"Lebron","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom Jeff Benedict, the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eTiger Woods \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Dynasty\u003c\/i\u003e, this is the definitive biography of LeBron James, one of the greatest athletes of all time--the king of basketball, the figure at the center of social movements, the man everyone has an opinion on--based on three years of exhaustive research and more than two hundred interviews.\u003c\/b\u003eLeBron James is the greatest basketball player of the twenty-first century, and he's in the conversation with Michael Jordan as the greatest of all-time. He wears the crown like he was born to it. Yet what makes LeBron's story so compelling is that he won his destiny despite overwhelmingly long odds, in a drama worthy of a Dickens novel. As a child, he was a lost little boy living in a public housing project in Akron, Ohio. His mother, who had LeBron when she was sixteen, would sometimes leave him on his own. Scared and alone, destitute and fatherless, LeBron missed close to 100 days of school in fourth grade and didn't play organized basketball. \u003ci\u003eLeBron \u003c\/i\u003etells the full, riveting saga of how a boy adrift finds the will to become a titan. Jeff Benedict, the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eTiger Woods\u003c\/i\u003e, paints a vivid picture of LeBron's epic origin story, showing the gradual ascent of a star who, surrounded by a tight-knit group of friends and adult mentors, transformed into a speeding comet during high school. LeBron today has built not only a basketball career that will go down as one of the greatest in the sport's history, but a solid family and a business empire. He produces Hollywood films and television shows, he has a social media presence that includes over 100 million followers, he engages in political activism and takes outspoken stances on racism and social injustice, he transforms lives through his visionary philanthropy, and he's the first active NBA player to become a billionaire. To tell the story of LeBron's rise to dominance on the court and beyond, Benedict pored through thousands of pages of primary source documents and countless of hours of video footage. He conducted hundreds of interviews with the people who were intimately involved with LeBron at different stages of his life, taking us inside his early years through his famed NBA career spanning championships with three teams as well as his supremacy in the Olympics. Destined to be the authoritative account of LeBron's life, \u003ci\u003eLeBron \u003c\/i\u003eis a gripping and unprecedented account of one of the world's greatest and most iconic athletes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeff Benedict\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1797152602\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781797152608\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster Audio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/11\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e CD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 5.70h x 6.20w x 1.90d","brand":"Jeff Benedict","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":44076730155263,"sku":"9781797152608","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dac18577-7c93-42fb-9239-38084e562ffd.jpg?v=1685466510","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lebron-jeff-benedict-9781797152608","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}