Wooden: A Coach’s Life
“Wooden: A Coach’s Life” by Seth Davis is a comprehensive biography of the legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden, published by St. Martin’s Publishing Group on January 13, 2015. This reprint edition spans 624 pages and is presented in English. The book offers an in-depth exploration of Wooden’s extraordinary career, detailing his unprecedented success in college basketball during the 1960s and ’70s, including ten NCAA championships and an eighty-eight-game winning streak.
Readers will find a thorough examination of Wooden’s journey, from his early days as an All-American player at Purdue to his influential coaching career at UCLA. The biography draws on extensive archival research and over two hundred interviews with players, coaches, and Wooden himself, providing insights into his motivations and challenges. The narrative also highlights the experiences of notable players like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bill Walton, offering a multifaceted view of Wooden’s impact on the sport and the lessons learned throughout his life.
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A provocative and revelatory new biography of the legendary UCLA coach John Wooden, by one of America’s top college basketball writers
No college basketball coach has ever dominated the sport like John Wooden. His UCLA teams reached unprecedented heights in the 1960s and ’70s capped by a run of ten NCAA championships in twelve seasons and an eighty-eight-game winning streak, records that stand to this day. Wooden also became a renowned motivational speaker and writer, revered for his “Pyramid of Success.”
Seth Davis of Sports Illustrated and CBS Sports has written the definitive biography of Wooden, an unflinching portrait that draws on archival research and more than two hundred interviews with players, opponents, coaches, and even Wooden himself. Davis shows how hard Wooden strove for success, from his All-American playing days at Purdue through his early years as a high school and college coach to the glory days at UCLA, only to discover that reaching new heights brought new burdens and frustrations. Davis also reveals how at the pinnacle of his career Wooden found himself on questionable ground with alumni, referees, assistants, and even some of his players. His was a life not only of lessons taught, but also of lessons learned.
Woven into the story as well are the players who powered Wooden’s championship teams – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Walton, Walt Hazzard, and others – many of whom speak frankly about their coach. The portrait that emerges from Davis’s remarkable biography is of a man in full, whose life story still resonates today.
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