There are still 2 months of summer ahead, so many people have time to spend not only usefully, but also interestingly. We present to your attention books that will help you do this:
Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever by Reed Albergotti Reed and Vanessa O'Connell
Correspondents of the American newspaper Wall-Street Journal reed Albergotti and Vanessa O'connell took up an independent investigation of the doping story around Lance Armstrong (American cyclist). As a result, we have a whole book about how money, power and advanced scientific achievements were used to win the most difficult bicycle race in the world, and how an international criminal network managed to organize its work. This book is about the greatest criminal conspiracy in the history of sports.
What We Think About When We Think About Football by Simon Critchley
Football is very often unfairly marginalized, trying to present it as a questionable minority hobby, but the author of this book successfully resists this by linking the game with everyday life – he sees football as a spectacle, football as a collective unconscious, as a manifestation of intelligence and stupidity at the same time.
Football Against The Enemy by Simon Kuper
Simon Kuper took a real pilgrimage around the world, visiting not only European countries, but also Africa, the United States, Argentina and Brazil in order to tell us how this, without a doubt, the most popular game in the world affects not only the domestic, but also the foreign policy of the largest (and not very) countries in the world.
Tiger Woods by Jeff Benedict, Armen Keteyian
Drawing on more than four hundred interviews with people from every corner of Woods’s life—many of whom have never spoken about him on the record before—Benedict and Keteyian construct a captivating psychological profile of a mixed race child programmed by an attention-grabbing father and the original Tiger Mom to be the “chosen one,” to change not just the game of golf, but the world as well. But at what cost? Benedict and Keteyian provide the starling answers in this definitive biography that is destined to linger in the minds of readers for years to come.
The Mamba Mentality: How I Play by Kobe Bryant
It is Kobe Bryant’s personal perspective of his life and career on the basketball court and his exceptional, insightful style of playing the game―a fitting legacy from the late Los Angeles Laker superstar.
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