Jordan: The Man, His Words, His Life

From Michael Jordan's humble beginnings to his NBA superstardom, Jordan: the man, his words, his life by Mitchell Krugel is a brilliant account of the life of Michael Jordan on and off the court. At first, the book hooked me instantly because it told you what to expect and the information was presented very well. The author's introduction was phenomenal. What really interests the reader is how the author includes his own opinions about the events of Michael's life. For example, the author expresses his emotions in such an intense way about the tragic murder of Michael's father, James Jordan, in downtown Chicago. After the halfway point of the book, I concluded that this biography goes into a lot of depth as far as his spectacular college and professional basketball career. Overall, this book is an excellent account of Michael's public as well as his personal life.

The Man, His Life, His Words, by Mitchell Krugel. This book showed the many ways Michael Jordan became the great player he did. This shows his most memorable moments and his worst ones. One of his worst was when he didn't make the basketball team in his sophomore year in high school. After he was cut, he got every morning at 6a.m. to work with the varsity basketball coach and worked on all his areas he was lacking in. He ended up being an all-american at Laney High School. One of his most memorable moments was when he won 3 straight national championships with a team that did not even have a winning record the year before he came. This book also shows his struggle with trying to balance super-stardom with fatherhood. It also shows his struggles he had with him being too impatient with his teammates. I recommend this book to anyone into basketball because this book is inspiring and fun to read.

I like to read biographies of athletes but so many times they do not explain the athlete's life, game, how he gets ready for a game or how he deals with all the critism. This biography is just the oposite and I feel they explain every thing about what Michael Jordan does and who he really is. Another reason why I give this book 4-stars is because it is not often that you get to hear what the athlete really thinks about the critism or how they handle it, or any thing to deal with there life outside the game.

This is more than a biography. This is a complete overview of the man and his life. Krugel does what Bob Greene, Sam Smith and David Halberstam failed to do - get inside the life of Michael Jordan and explain how he did what he did. If you are looking for one book about Michael Jordan, this is it

This has to be the best single book on Jordan so far. Not only does it cover intense game situations as they happened, it has the events covered from other players' perspectives and then by Jordan himself. He talks about opponents and they talk about him. He talks about people calling him greatest ever and how other players measure up to him - especially Wilt. The only negative point is that the photographs are weak. However, the text is fascinating and offers an in-depth world of the pressures of being Michael Jordan. It does not repeat the same factoids about his childhood that we already read a hundred times about. This book is about The Man and what makes him tick and how he goes about doing what he does. It is a truly unique experience and one of the rare occasions where we can actually learn about a genius from his own words.