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LEBRON
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tiger Woods and The Dynasty, this is the definitive biography of one of the greatest athletes of all time, LeBron James - the king of his sport, the figure at the center of social movements, the man everyone has an opinion on - based on five years of exhaustive research and more than three hundred interviews.
The first definitive biography of LeBron James, Jeff Benedict's LeBron comes on the heels of Benedict's New York Times bestsellers Tiger Woods and The Dynasty, which chronicled, respectively the world's greatest golfer and the greatest American football team (the New England Patriots) in the 100-year history of the National Football League. LeBron is unquestionably the greatest basketball player of the 21st century and is locked in a debate with Michael Jordan as the greatest to ever play the game.
Yet off the court, LeBron offers a much richer and diverse life than Jordan in terms of political activism, his outspoken stance on racism and social injustice, his involvement producing Hollywood films and television shows, and his social media presence that includes 117 million followers on Instagram and 51 million followers on Twitter. All of this has propelled LeBron into an international brand worth billions of dollars. He doesn't just have huge endorsement deals with some of the biggest corporations in the world; LeBron sits on boards of directors and has an equity stake in the companies he sponsors. He has forged close friendships with President Barack Obama and billionaire Warren Buffett. And he has clashed publicly with President Donald Trump and founded a non-profit organization that registered millions of minority voters in the 2020 president election.
But what makes this story so compelling is that at age nine, LeBron was a lost little boy living in a public housing project in Akron, Ohio. His mother, who had LeBron when she was just sixteen, would disappear for days at a time. Scared and alone, LeBron rarely attended school. He was dirt poor and fatherless. And he had never played organized basketball. When you think about, at that moment he was the most unlikely child in America to emerge as the most successful and most popular athlete that the United States has produced this century. To tell this epic story, Benedict has done exhaustive research, digging through thousands of pages of primary source documents, articles, books, and hundreds of hours of video footage. He's also conducted hundreds of interviews with the people who were intimately involved with LeBron from the beginning of his life to the present. Very much like the approach taken in Tiger Woods, Benedict tells LeBron's origin story from his point of view and showing the initial slow rise of a star that suddenly transformed into a speeding comet during his senior year of high school. The biography will cover his dominant NBA career, where he's won championships with three teams, as well as his dominance in the Olympics.
Jeff Benedict is the bestselling author of sixteen non-fiction books, as well as a television and film producer. His latest book, The Dynasty, is the definitive inside story of the New England Patriots under Robert Kraft, Bill Belichick and Tom Brady. Published in 2020, it was an instant New York Times bestseller. The book is being developed into a 10-part documentary series, which Jeff is executive producing. In 2018, Jeff co-wrote the #1 bestseller Tiger Woods. Jeff was an executive producer on the HBO documentary Tiger that was based on the book and aired in 2021. The book is currently being developed into a scripted series, which Jeff is executive producing. Jeff is also the executive producer on a documentary based on his book Poisoned that will air on Netflix. Jeff has been a special-features writer for Sports Illustrated, the Los Angeles Times, and the Hartford Courant, and his essays have appeared in the New York Times. His stories have been the basis of segments on 60 Minutes, CBS Sunday Morning, HBO Real Sports, Discovery Channel, Good Morning America, 20/20, 48 Hours, NFL Network, and NPR. He lives with his wife and four children in Connecticut.
Yet off the court, LeBron offers a much richer and diverse life than Jordan in terms of political activism, his outspoken stance on racism and social injustice, his involvement producing Hollywood films and television shows, and his social media presence that includes 117 million followers on Instagram and 51 million followers on Twitter. All of this has propelled LeBron into an international brand worth billions of dollars. He doesn't just have huge endorsement deals with some of the biggest corporations in the world; LeBron sits on boards of directors and has an equity stake in the companies he sponsors. He has forged close friendships with President Barack Obama and billionaire Warren Buffett. And he has clashed publicly with President Donald Trump and founded a non-profit organization that registered millions of minority voters in the 2020 president election.
But what makes this story so compelling is that at age nine, LeBron was a lost little boy living in a public housing project in Akron, Ohio. His mother, who had LeBron when she was just sixteen, would disappear for days at a time. Scared and alone, LeBron rarely attended school. He was dirt poor and fatherless. And he had never played organized basketball. When you think about, at that moment he was the most unlikely child in America to emerge as the most successful and most popular athlete that the United States has produced this century. To tell this epic story, Benedict has done exhaustive research, digging through thousands of pages of primary source documents, articles, books, and hundreds of hours of video footage. He's also conducted hundreds of interviews with the people who were intimately involved with LeBron from the beginning of his life to the present. Very much like the approach taken in Tiger Woods, Benedict tells LeBron's origin story from his point of view and showing the initial slow rise of a star that suddenly transformed into a speeding comet during his senior year of high school. The biography will cover his dominant NBA career, where he's won championships with three teams, as well as his dominance in the Olympics.
Jeff Benedict is the bestselling author of sixteen non-fiction books, as well as a television and film producer. His latest book, The Dynasty, is the definitive inside story of the New England Patriots under Robert Kraft, Bill Belichick and Tom Brady. Published in 2020, it was an instant New York Times bestseller. The book is being developed into a 10-part documentary series, which Jeff is executive producing. In 2018, Jeff co-wrote the #1 bestseller Tiger Woods. Jeff was an executive producer on the HBO documentary Tiger that was based on the book and aired in 2021. The book is currently being developed into a scripted series, which Jeff is executive producing. Jeff is also the executive producer on a documentary based on his book Poisoned that will air on Netflix. Jeff has been a special-features writer for Sports Illustrated, the Los Angeles Times, and the Hartford Courant, and his essays have appeared in the New York Times. His stories have been the basis of segments on 60 Minutes, CBS Sunday Morning, HBO Real Sports, Discovery Channel, Good Morning America, 20/20, 48 Hours, NFL Network, and NPR. He lives with his wife and four children in Connecticut.
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Published 2023-04-11 by Avid Reader Press |