LEADER 00000nim a22004935a 4500 003 MWT 005 20220201125029.0 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 220117s2020 xxunnn es i n eng d 020 9781250800787 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 1250800781 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 029 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ mcm_9781250800787_180.jpeg 028 42 MWT14009659 037 14009659|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 040 Midwest|erda 082 04 796.323092|aB|223 099 eAudiobook hoopla 099 eAudiobook hoopla 100 1 Thompson, John,|d1941-2020,|eauthor. 245 10 I came as a shadow :|ban autobiography|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cJohn Thompson, with Jesse Washington. 250 Unabridged. 264 1 [United States] :|bMacmillan Audio,|c2020. 264 2 |bMade available through hoopla 300 1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 58 min.)) : |bdigital. 336 spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 344 digital|hdigital recording|2rda 347 data file|2rda 506 Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 0 Read by Jesse Washington. 520 The long-awaited autobiography from Georgetown University's legendary coach, whose life on and off the basketball court threw America's unresolved struggle with racial justice into sharp relief. John Thompson was never just a basketball coach and I Came As A Shadow is categorically not just a basketball autobiography. After three decades at the center of race and sports in America, the first Black head coach to win an NCAA championship makes the private public at last. Chockful of stories and moving beyond mere stats (and what stats! three Final Fours, four times national coach of the year, seven Big East championships, 97 percent graduation rate), Thompson's book drives us through his childhood under Jim Crow segregation to our current moment of racial reckoning. We experience riding shotgun with Celtics icon Red Auerbach, and coaching NBA Hall of Famers like Patrick Ewing and Allen Iverson. How did he inspire the phrase "Hoya Paranoia"? You'll see. And thawing his historically glacial stare, Thompson brings us into his negotiation with a DC drug kingpin in his players' orbit in the 1980s, as well as behind the scenes of his years on the Nike board. Thompson's mother was a teacher who couldn't teach because she was Black. His father could not read or write, so the only way he could identify different cements at the factory where he worked was to taste them. Their son grew up to be a man with his own life-sized statue in a building that bears his family's name on a campus once kept afloat by the selling of 272 enslaved people. This is a great American story, and John Thompson's experience sheds light on many of the issues roiling our nation. In these pages-a last gift from "Coach"-he proves himself to be the elder statesman whose final words college basketball and the country need to hear. I Came As A Shadow is not a swan song, but a bullhorn blast from one of America's most prominent sons. Huddle up. A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 600 10 Thompson, John,|d1941-2020. 610 20 Georgetown Hoyas (Basketball team)|xHistory. 650 0 Basketball coaches|zUnited States|vBiography. 650 0 African American basketball coaches|vBiography. 651 0 United States|xRace relations. 700 1 Washington, Jesse,|eauthor,|enarrator. 710 2 hoopla digital. 856 40 |uhttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/ 13631836?utm_source=MARC|zInstantly available on hoopla. 856 42 |zCover image|uhttps://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ mcm_9781250800787_180.jpeg