Commander in Cheat
Autor Rick Reillyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 apr 2020
La finalul anilor 2010, într-o perioadă în care scena politică americană părea dominată de spectacol și controverse, un jurnalist sportiv decide să privească dincolo de discursurile oficiale, direct pe gazonul tăiat milimetric al terenurilor de golf. Descoperim aici o scenă revelatoare: o minge care zboară spre obstacolul de apă este mutată miraculos pe green de un caddy sau chiar de un agent Secret Service, totul sub privirea îngăduitoare a unui jucător care refuză să piardă. În Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump, Rick Reilly transformă sportul nobil într-un studiu de caracter neiertător. Subliniem rigoarea documentării; Reilly nu se bazează pe simple anecdote, ci pe mărturiile a peste o sută de oameni din interiorul circuitului — de la jucători de elită la simpli angajați. Narativul amintește de First Off The Tee prin intensitatea cu care reconstituie o epocă în care personalitatea liderului de la Casa Albă este filtrată prin eticheta sportivă. Dacă în Who's Your Caddy? autorul explora lumea golfului prin ochii celor care poartă gențile campionilor, aici el folosește aceeași perspectivă privilegiată pentru a demonta mitul „jucătorului cu handicap 3” care nu pierde niciodată. Reținem un stil narativ alert, cinematic, plin de umorul caustic specific lui Reilly, care a consacrat titluri precum Tiger, Meet My Sister? sau Shanks for Nothing. Cartea nu este doar despre sport, ci despre cum regulile încălcate pe teren — celebrul „Trump Bump” sau ignorarea partenerilor de joc — se traduc în decizii politice și stil de management. Este o cronică a unei obsesii pentru victorie cu orice preț, unde realitatea este ajustată pentru a corespunde întotdeauna imaginii de învingător.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 031652803X
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 139 x 211 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte oricărui cititor pasionat de psihologie politică sau de istoria recentă a Americii. Rick Reilly demonstrează că modul în care un om alege să respecte regulile unui joc spune totul despre cum va respecta legile unei națiuni. Veți câștiga o perspectivă unică, documentată cu umor și precizie jurnalistică, asupra uneia dintre cele mai polarizante figuri ale secolului XXI, totul prin prisma unui sport unde integritatea este, teoretic, obligatorie.
Despre autor
Rick Reilly, desemnat de unsprezece ori „National Sportswriter of the Year” în Statele Unite, este una dintre cele mai influente voci ale jurnalismului sportiv contemporan. Cu o carieră impresionantă la Sports Illustrated și ESPN, Reilly s-a remarcat prin capacitatea de a combina analiza sportivă cu satira socială. Autor a peste zece volume, printre care bestsellerurile New York Times Hate Mail from Cheerleaders și Missing Links, el este recunoscut pentru stilul său incisiv și capacitatea de a extrage semnificații umane profunde din competițiile atletice. Experiența sa vastă pe terenul de golf îi oferă autoritatea necesară pentru a scrie această analiză neconvențională.
Descriere scurtă
"Reilly pokes more holes in Trump's claims than there are sand traps on all of his courses combined. It is by turns amusing and alarming."-- The New Yorker
"Golf is the spine of this shocking, wildly humorous book, but humanity is its flesh and spirit." -- Chicago Sun-Times
"Every one of Trump's most disgusting qualities surfaces in golf." -- The Ringer
An outrageous indictment of Donald Trump's appalling behavior when it comes to golf -- on and off the green -- and what it reveals about his character.
Donald Trump loves golf. He loves to play it, buy it, build it, and operate it. He owns 14 courses around the world and runs another five, all of which he insists are the best on the planet. He also claims he's a 3 handicap, almost never loses, and has won an astonishing 18 club championships. How much of all that is true? Almost none of it, acclaimed sportswriter Rick Reilly reveals in this unsparing look at Trump in the world of golf. Based on Reilly's own experiences with Trump as well as interviews with over 100 golf pros, amateurs, developers, and caddies, Commander in Cheat is a startling and at times hilarious indictment of Trump and his golf game. You'll learn how Trump cheats (sometimes with the help of his caddies and Secret Service agents), lies about his scores (the "Trump Bump"), tells whoppers about the rank of his courses and their worth (declaring that every one of them is worth $50 million), and tramples the etiquette of the game (driving on greens doesn't help). Trump doesn't brag so much, though, about the golf contractors he stiffs, the course neighbors he intimidates, or the way his golf decisions wind up infecting his political ones. For Trump, it's always about winning. To do it, he uses the tricks he picked up from the hustlers at the public course where he learned the game as a college kid, and then polished as one of the most bombastic businessmen of our time. As Reilly writes, "Golf is like bicycle shorts. It reveals a lot about a man." Commander in Cheat "paints a side-splitting portrait of a congenital cheater" (Esquire), revealing all kinds of unsightly truths Trump has been hiding.
Descriere
FROM THE WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE SUNDAY TIMES BOOK AWARDS 2023.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GENERAL OUTSTANDING SPORTS WRITING AWARD AT THE 2020 TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.
'An eye-watering account of the president's abuse of the rules of golf' Sunday Times
Donald Trump is now the 45th and 47th President of the United States of America. We're living in a Trump Presidency 2.0. What better to explain the madness of it all than one of his favourite sports?
Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump is a fascinating on-the-ground and behind-the-scenes survey of Donald Trump's ethics deficit on and off the golf course. Renowned sports writer Rick Reilly transports readers onto the greens with President Trump, revealing the absurd ways in which he lies about his feats, and what they can tell us about the way he leads off the course in the most important job in the world.
Reilly has been with Trump on the fairways, the greens and in the rough, he has seen how the President plays - and it's not pretty. Based on his personal experiences, and interviews with dozens of golf pros, amateurs, developers, partners, opponents, and even caddies who have first-hand involvement with Trump out on the course, Reilly takes a deep and often hilarious look at how Trump shamelessly cheats at golf, lies about it, sues over it, bullies with it, and profits from it.
From Trump's ridiculous claim to have won eighteen club championships, to his devious cheating tricks, to his tainted reputation as a golf course tycoon, Commander in Cheat tells you everything you need to know about the man.
'Reilly pokes more holes in Trump's claims than there are sand traps on all his courses combined. It is by turns amusing and alarming' New Yorker
Recenzii
'An eye-watering account of the president's abuse of the rules of golf'
The Sunday Times
'Reilly pokes more holes in Trump's claims than there are sand traps on all his courses combined. It is by turns amusing and alarming'
The New Yorker