A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton

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When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were at the beginning of their careers. A Sense of Where You Are, McPhee’s first book, is about Bradley when he was the best basketball player Princeton had ever seen. McPhee delineates for the reader the training and techniques that made Bradley the strange athlete he was, and this a part of the book is a blueprint of superlative basketball. But athletic prowess alone would not give an explanation for Bradley’s magnetism, which is in the quality of the man himself―his self-discipline, his rationality, and his sense of responsibility. Here is a portrait of Bradley as he was in college, before his time with the New York Knicks and his election to the U.S. Senate―a story that suggests the abundant beginnings of his professional careers in sport and politics.

First published in 1965, A Sense of Where You Are is the literary equivalent of a harmonic convergence, a remarkable confluence of two talents–John McPhee and Bill Bradley–at the beginning of what would prove to be long and distinguished careers. At the same time as McPhee would blossom into one of the vital best nonfiction writers of the last 35 years, Bradley segued from an all-American basketball player at Princeton, to Rhodes Scholar, to NBA star, to three terms in the U.S. Senate. McPhee noticed greatness in Bradley from the start; the book is an extension of a lengthy magazine profile McPhee wrote early in Bradley’s senior year; the title comes from Bradley at all times knowing his position when it comes to the basket. What’s so noteworthy about the book is the greatness it promised–both for creator and for subject, a greatness both have delivered over time over and over.

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