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Glory Days: The Summer of 1984 and the 90 Days That Changed Sports and Culture Forever
Glory Days: The Summer of 1984 and the 90 Days That Changed Sports and Culture Forever
Glory Days: The Summer of 1984 and the 90 Days That Changed Sports and Culture Forever
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Glory Days: The Summer of 1984 and the 90 Days That Changed Sports and Culture Forever

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A rollicking guided tour of one extraordinary summer, when some of the most pivotal and freakishly coincidental stories all collided and changed the way we think about modern sports

The summer of 1984 was a watershed moment in the birth of modern sports when the nation watched Michael Jordan grow from college basketball player to professional athlete and star. That summer also saw ESPN’s rise to media dominance as the country’s premier sports network and the first modern, commercialized, profitable Olympics. Magic Johnson and Larry Bird’s rivalry raged, Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe reigned in tennis, and Hulk Hogan and Vince McMahon made pro wrestling a business, while Donald Trump pierced the national consciousness as a pro football team owner. It was an awakening in the sports world, a moment when sports began to morph into the market-savvy, sensationalized, moneyed, controversial, and wildly popular arena we know today.
 
In the tradition of Bill Bryson’s One Summer: America, 1927, L. Jon Wertheim captures these 90 seminal days against the backdrop of the nostalgia-soaked 1980s, to show that this was the year we collectively traded in our ratty Converses for a pair of sleek, heavily branded, ingeniously marketed Nikes. This was the year that sports went big-time.  

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Release dateJun 15, 2021
ISBN9781328637901
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L. Jon Wertheim

L. Jon Wertheim is the executive editor of Sports Illustrated. He is the author of seven highly praised books, including the New York Times bestseller Scorecasting. He is a regular contributor to CNN and National Public Radio and is a commentator for the Tennis Channel.

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    Glory Days is one of the best sports books I've read. The story of how the summer of 1984 was such a pivotal time in the worlds of sports and pop culture was extremely interesting. From Michael Jordan to Michael Jackson to the L.A. Olympics and so much more, this book has everything covered. Wertheim does a great job using today's achievements to tie back to this time and clearly explain the foresight and vision shared by so many influential people. I highly recommend this to any fan of sports, pop culture, or 80s history. 5 starsThank you to NetGalley and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Mariner Books for the ARC.

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