Overview

The experiment was dreamed up by two fathers, one white, one black. What would happen, they wondered, if they mixed white players from an elite Seattle private school and black kids from the inner city on a basketball team? The team's season unfolded like a perfectly scripted sports movie: The ragtag group of boys gelled together to win the league championship. The experiment was deemed a success. But was it? How did crossing lines of class, race, and wealth affect the lives of these ten boys? Two decades later, Doug Merlino, who played on the team, returned to find his teammates. The result is a complex, gripping, and at times unsettling story. An instant classic of narrative nonfiction, The Hustle tells the stories of ten teammates set before a background of sweeping social and economic change, capturing the ways race, money, and opportunity shape our lives.

Full Product Details

9781608192595

Table of Contents

Reviews

Expecting a conventional basketball book? Look elsewhere... This book, both memoir and social analysis, is an essential read as a recent social history and personal story of America. Library Journal Gripping ... poignant, and memorable. Seattle Times Anyone concerned with improving the U.S. educational system must read this book, which brilliantly highlights the problems and possibilities facing schools and students. ... The Hustle is a wonderful reading experience. Robert L. Bernstein, founder, Human Rights Watch; former president, Random House Part history text, part sociological study, part memoir, The Hustle is more than just a book about basketball. ... It's a book that you have to read. SLAM magazine

Author Information

Doug Merlino is a veteran journalist who has written for Wired, Men's Journal, Legal Affairs, and many other publications. He previously lived in Budapest after leaving Seattle. He now lives in New York with his wife.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available