Books with author Jim Lester

What do Wilt Chamberlain, Adolph Rupp, the fictional character Chip Hilton, the CCNY Beavers, the future director of Monday Night Football and a coach who won the national championship and ended his career driving a school bus have in common? The answer is they were all part of the wonderful tapestry of college basketball in the 1950s. Set against a backdrop of the Korean War, McCarthyism, hoola-hoops and Elvis Presley, Hoop Crazy is the inspiring story of how college basketball overcame the disastrous gambling scandals of 1951 and emerged a decade later as a major component of the American sports scene.

Two Tribes provides a unique, comprehensive, and fact-based analysis of today's political environment. With the ����rst year of the Trump Administration serving as the backdrop, Two Tribes focuses on the massive and emotional partisan chasm that has divided the country into two tribes, as well as the disappearance of objective truth. Using a championship football team as a model, Two Tribes is divided into three parts (The Preseason, The Long Season, and Becoming a Team for the Ages) and, using a football analogy in each of the 16 chapters, offers solutions to complex and intractable problems. Two Tribes, based primarily on the Constitution, American history, and the Bible, argues that country is more important than party and encourages Democrats, Republicans, and Independents--especially those with children and grandchildren--to be patriots rather than blind partisans.

Two Tribes provides a unique, comprehensive, and fact-based analysis of today's political environment. With the first year of the Trump Administration serving as the backdrop, Two Tribes focuses on the massive and emotional partisan chasm that has divided the country into two tribes, as well as the disappearance of objective truth. Using a championship football team as a model, Two Tribes is divided into three parts (The Preseason, The Long Season, and Becoming a Team for the Ages) and, using a football analogy in each of the 16 chapters, offers solutions to complex and intractable problems. Two Tribes, based primarily on the Constitution, American history, and the Bible, argues that country is more important than party and encourages Democrats, Republicans, and Independents--especially those with children and grandchildren--to be patriots rather than blind partisans.

Kenny Francis is a high-school junior with four fathers. His real father was killed in Vietnam, so his father's three marine buddies have been helping to raise Kenny. Kenny is not afraid of anything or anyone. But he's been screwing up as long as he can remember, and now he's being sent to Bedford Academy to get straightened out. It doesn't help that his real father was so perfect: a good student, a talented athlete, and a war hero. Or was he? As Kenny struggles to help himself, he begins to uncover painful truths about his father.