ISBN号:9781982110918
书名:LeBron
作者:Jeff Benedict
出版日期:2023-04-11
英文简介:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the #1 bestselling author of The Dynasty and Tiger Woods comes the definitive biography of basketball superstar LeBron James, based on three years of exhaustive research and more than 250 interviews.
LeBron James is the greatest basketball player of the twenty-first century, and he’s in the conversation with Michael Jordan as the greatest of all time.
The reigning king of the game and the first active NBA player to become a billionaire, LeBron wears the crown like he was born with it.
Yet his ascent has been anything but effortless and predetermined– the truth is vastly more interesting than that.
What makes LeBron’s story so compelling is how he won his destiny despite overwhelmingly long odds, in a drama worthy of a Dickens novel.
As a child, he was a scared and lonely little boy living a nomadic existence in Akron, Ohio.
His mother, who had LeBron when she was sixteen, would sometimes leave him on his own.
Destitute and fatherless, he missed close to one hundred days of school in the fourth grade.
Desperate, his mother placed him with a family that gave him stability and put a basketball in his hands.
LeBron tells the full, riveting saga of how a child adrift found the will to become a titan.
Jeff Benedict, the most celebrated sports biographer of our time, paints a vivid picture of LeBron’s epic origin story, showing the gradual rise of a star who, surrounded by a tight-knit group of teenage friends and adult mentors, accelerated into a speeding comet during high school.
Today LeBron produces Hollywood films and television shows, has a social media presence that includes more than one hundred million followers, engages in political activism, takes outspoken stances on racism and social injustice, and transforms lives through his visionary philanthropy.
He went from a lost boy in Akron to a beloved hero who uses his fortune to educate underprivileged children and lift up needy families–and brought home Cleveland’s first NBA championship.
But LeBron is more than just the origin story of a GOAT or a recap of his multi-championship, multi-MVP, gold medal-decorated career on the court.
Benedict delves into LeBron’s relationship with fame and power: how he has cultivated it, harnessed it, suffered from it, and leveraged it.
In these pages, we go behind the scenes of LeBron’s grappling with his seismic celebrity, from appearing on the cover of Sports Illustrated as a high school junior to The Decision, which briefly turned the nation against him.
We also watch his evolution from a player who avoided politics and was widely criticized for not joining his teammates in protesting China’s role in the Darfur genocide to becoming an athlete who partnered with President Obama; campaigned for Hillary Clinton; became an advocate against gun violence, racism, and voter suppression; and openly clashed with President Trump, empowering other athletes to speak out against social injustice.
To capture LeBron’s extraordinary life, Benedict conducted hundreds of interviews with the people who were involved with LeBron at different stages of his life.
He also obtained thousands of pages of primary source documents and mined hundreds of hours of video footage.
Destined to be the authoritative account of LeBron’s life, LeBron is a gripping, inspiring, and unprecedented portrait of one of the world’s most captivating figures.
中文简介:
纽约时报畅销书 * 篮球巨星勒布朗·詹姆斯的权威传记来自王朝和老虎伍兹的第一畅销书作者，基于三年的详尽研究和超过 250 次采访。
勒布朗·詹姆斯是 21 世纪最伟大的篮球运动员，他与迈克尔·乔丹的对话是有史以来最伟大的。
勒布朗是这项运动的卫冕之王，也是第一位成为亿万富翁的现役 NBA 球员，他的王冠仿佛与生俱来。
然而，他的上升绝非毫不费力和预先确定的——事实远比这有趣得多。
勒布朗的故事之所以如此引人入胜，是因为他如何在赔率极低的情况下赢得了自己的命运，这是一部堪比狄更斯小说的戏剧。
小时候，他是一个害怕和孤独的小男孩，在俄亥俄州的阿克伦过着游牧生活。
他的母亲在 16 岁时生下了勒布朗，有时会把他独自留下。
四年级时，他又穷又孤，缺了将近一百天的学业。
走投无路的他，母亲把他安置在了一个能让他安定下来的家庭，并在他手中放了一个篮球。
勒布朗讲述了一个漂泊的孩子如何找到成为巨人的意志的完整而引人入胜的传奇故事。
我们这个时代最著名的体育传记作家杰夫·本尼迪克特生动地描绘了勒布朗史诗般的起源故事，展示了这位明星的逐渐崛起，在一群紧密团结的青少年朋友和成年导师的包围下，加速成为一颗疾驰的彗星在高中期间。
如今，勒布朗制作好莱坞电影和电视节目，拥有超过一亿粉丝的社交媒体影响力，从事政治活动，对种族主义和社会不公直言不讳，并通过他富有远见的慈善事业改变生活。
他从阿克伦城的一个迷路男孩变成了一位受人爱戴的英雄，他利用自己的财富教育贫困儿童并扶助贫困家庭——并为克利夫兰队带回了第一个 NBA 冠军。
但勒布朗不仅仅是一个 GOAT 的起源故事，也不仅仅是他在球场上多次获得冠军、多次 MVP、金牌的职业生涯的回顾。
本尼迪克特深入探讨了勒布朗与名望和权力的关系：他是如何培养、利用、遭受和利用它的。
在这几页中，我们将深入了解勒布朗与他那震撼人心的名人作斗争的幕后故事，从高中三年级时出现在体育画报的封面到曾短暂让全国反对他的“决定”。
我们也看到了他从一个回避政治、因没有与队友一起抗议中国在达尔富尔种族灭绝中的作用而受到广泛批评的球员，到成为一名与奥巴马总统搭档的运动员；为希拉里·克林顿竞选；成为反对枪支暴力、种族主义和压制选民的倡导者；并公开与特朗普总统发生冲突，让其他运动员能够大声疾呼反对社会不公。
为了捕捉勒布朗不平凡的一生，本尼迪克特对在勒布朗生命的不同阶段参与过的人进行了数百次采访。
他还获得了数千页的主要来源文件，并挖掘了数百小时的视频片段。
勒布朗注定要成为勒布朗生平的权威记录，它是一幅扣人心弦、鼓舞人心、前所未有的世界上最迷人人物之一的肖像。
书籍总体字数：208043，除去名字和专有名词等之后还剩余175322计入单词总数。
书籍单词数在10万至20万之间，难度稍大,还需要结合下方难度分析。
其中：
四级单词出现159003个/次,
六级单词（排除四级单词后）出现2564个/次，
托福单词出现81741个/次，
SAT单词出现8770个/次，
GRE单词出现18242个/次，考研单词出现159691个/次，
雅思单词出现41967个/次。
高中单词出现152940个/次。
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这些统计基于我的词库，不排除词库存在误差，仅供参考。
非常欢迎大家提供自己收集的词库给我。
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