In "American Bracketology," Mark Reiter and Richard Sandomir take
the elegant art of "bracketology" and use it as an eye- opening and
hilarious tool to celebrate everything that's good, bad, and silly
in our American way of life.
- It's great entertainment: Americans have an insatiable appetite
for knowing what is good, better, and best in their world. If the
issue is historical, they want their knowledge base refined. If the
issue is sociopolitical, they want their preferences acknowledged.
If the issue is popular culture, they want to be entertained. If
it's a consumer issue, they don't want to be cheated. For the
uninitiated, bracketol- ogy is, literally, "the study of brackets."
It derives from the bracket format used to rank the top sixty-four
basketball teams in the annual NCAA tournament known as March
Madness. That knockout tournament format, the subject of heated
debate among hundreds of thousands of people participating in
office pools around the land, gave birth to the term bracketology.
This is a book that allows Americans to play this game on a much
bigger field. The authors have assigned more than 150
brackets--tackling challenges from the serious to the comic, the
vital to the trivial--to the finest experts, writers, and
personalities this country has on tap.
- It's authoritative: So imagine: Gail Collins on First Ladies,
Walter Isaacson on Ben Franklin Wisdom, David Remnick on
Pound-for-Pound-fighters, Calvin Trillin on Sandwiches--you get the
picture. Frank Rick on The Underserving Hall of Fame, Kevin Conley
on Greatest Movie Stunts, Paul Slansky on the Lucky Sperm Club.
General
Imprint: |
Simon & Schuster
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
May 2009 |
First published: |
May 2009 |
Editors: |
Mark Reiter
• Richard Sandomir
|
Dimensions: |
232 x 187 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
336 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4391-2608-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Sport & Leisure >
Humour >
General
|
LSN: |
1-4391-2608-9 |
Barcode: |
9781439126080 |
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