The author journeys around the world to discover why basketball has become a global phenomenon, from the Royal court in Bhutan to the tragedy of the legendary junior national team in war torn Yugoslavia, where he learns that basketball has the power to define an individual, a race, a culture, and even a country. 40,000 first printing.

Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Wolff, Alexander

Thrillers & Suspense

WARNER BOOKS

- BIG GAME, SMALL WORLD was published in Warner hardcover in 1/02. It was named a "New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winning nationwide acclaim in publications, including the "New York Times, New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Booklist, and ESPN.com, among others.- Alexander Wolff is the "New York Times bestselling co-author of "Raw Recruits (Pocket, 1991), which upon publication was hailed as "the most important sports book in years," and the author of "100 Years of Hoops (Oxmoor House, 1991), with over 100,000 copies in print.- Like John Feinstein's "A March to Madness (Little, Brown and Company, 1997) and "Season on the Brink (Simon &amp; Schuster, 1980), BIG GAME, SMALL WORLD appeals to the large number of readers fascinated by basketball.- Alexander Wolff is an award-winning senior writer for "Sports Illustrated, and is considered the dean of basketball writers within the magazine industry.

Sports & Outdoors

Basketball

Grand Central Publishing

Exposes the underhanded practices of college basketball recruiting, revealing the often devastating personal, financial, and emotional costs to the players, coaches and institutions involved

Raw Recruits

Literature & Fiction

Keteyian, Armen

Contemporary

Pocket_Books

Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home

Product Description 
A sweeping portrait of the turmoil of the twentieth century and the legacy of immigration, as seen through the German-American family of the celebrated book publisher Kurt WolffA literary gem researched over a year the author spent living in Berlin, 
Endpapers excavates the extraordinary histories of the author’s grandfather and father: the renowned publisher Kurt Wolff, dubbed “perhaps the twentieth century’s most discriminating publisher” by the New York Times Book Review, and his son Niko, who fought in the Wehrmacht during World War II before coming to America. 
Kurt Wolff was born in Bonn into a highly cultured German-Jewish family, whose ancestors included converts to Christianity, among them Baron Moritz von Haber, whose desire to demand satisfaction in a duel sparked off bloody antisemitic riots. Always bookish, Kurt became a publisher at twenty-three, setting up his own firm and publishing Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth, Karl Kraus, and many other authors whose books would soon be burned by the Nazis. Fleeing Germany in 1933, a day after the Reichstag fire, Kurt and his second wife, Helen, sought refuge in France, Italy, and ultimately New York, where in a small Greenwich Village apartment they founded Pantheon Books. Pantheon would soon take its own place in literary history with the publication of Nobel laureate Boris Pasternak’s novel Doctor Zhivago, and as the conduit that brought major European works to the States. But Kurt’s taciturn son Niko, offspring of his first marriage to Elisabeth Merck, was left behind in Germany, where despite his Jewish heritage he served the Nazis on two fronts. As Alexander Wolff visits dusty archives and meets distant relatives, he discovers secrets that never made it to the land of fresh starts, including the connection between Hitler and the family pharmaceutical firm E. Merck, and the story of a half-brother Niko never knew. 
With surprising revelations from never-before-published family letters, diaries, and photographs, Endpapers is a moving and intimate family story, weaving a literary tapestry of the perils, triumphs, and secrets of history and exile. 
 Review 
Praise for Endpapers: 
An Amazon Best Book of the Month (History) 
"An event-filled biography and, along the way, a captivating case study in the challenges faced by refugees attempting to remake a life . . . Part of Mr. Wolff's chronicle has to do with the family lineage of which he is a part, not least the experience of his own father, Kurt's son Niko . . . Not content with registering the tectonic shifts of the times, [Kurt] Wolff brought about convulsions of his own, shaking up the American postwar literary scene. His grandson's book, as enlightening as it is engaging, measures the effects." --Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal 
"Wolff powerfully uses the present to lace together the biographies of his father and paternal grandfather . . . If war, exile, geographical distance, American myopia, and the comforts of upper-middle class life separated the three generations, Wolff's book attempts to bring them together. In the spirit of Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung, the work of confronting the past undertaken by generations of post-war Germans, Wolff uses his skills as a reporter to sift through reams of correspondences, journals, archives, and interviews to expose the darkest parts of his family's history . . . Ultimately the real energy of Endpapers comes not from Wolff's impressive reconstruction of his father and grandfather's biographies, but from the way he adds himself to the narrative, bringing us back to the present, to Merkel and Trump, to the stumbling stones in Berlin that mark a victim of the Nazis, to questions of his own privilege. Endpapers is more than a book of history; it's a transnational, intergenerational reckoning." --Shuchi Saraswat, Boston Globe 
"Wolff explores the lives and history of his father and great-grandfather, the distinguished founder of Pantheon Books. As books

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Atlantic Monthly Press

A sweeping portrait of the turmoil of the twentieth century and the legacy of immigration, as seen through the German-American family of the celebrated book publisher Kurt Wolff A literary gem researched over a year the author spent living in Berlin, Endpapers excavates the extraordinary histories of the author's grandfather and father: the renowned publisher Kurt Wolff, dubbed "perhaps the twentieth century's most discriminating publisher" by the New York Times Book Review, and his son Niko, who fought in the Wehrmacht during World War II before coming to America. Kurt Wolff was born in Bonn into a highly cultured German-Jewish family, whose ancestors included converts to Christianity, among them Baron Moritz von Haber, whose desire to demand satisfaction in a duel sparked off bloody antisemitic riots. Always bookish, Kurt became a publisher at twenty-three, setting up his own firm and publishing Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth, Karl Kraus, and many other authors whose books would soon be burned by the Nazis. Fleeing Germany in 1933, a day after the Reichstag fire, Kurt and his second wife, Helen, sought refuge in France, Italy, and ultimately New York, where in a small Greenwich Village apartment they founded Pantheon Books. Pantheon would soon take its own place in literary history with the publication of Nobel laureate Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago, and as the conduit that brought major European works to the States. But Kurt's taciturn son Niko, offspring of his first marriage to Elisabeth Merck, was left behind in Germany, where despite his Jewish heritage he served the Nazis on two fronts. As Alexander Wolff visits dusty archives and meets distant relatives, he discovers secrets that never made it to the land of fresh starts, including the connection between Hitler and the family pharmaceutical firm E. Merck, and the story of a half-brother Niko never knew. With surprising revelations from never-before-published family letters, diaries, and photographs, Endpapers is a moving and intimate family story, weaving a literary tapestry of the perils, triumphs, and secrets of history and exile.

GROVE PRESS

Woodling, Chuck, McLendon, John, Wolff, Alexander

The Kansas Century: 100 Years of Championship Jayhawk Basketball

History

Woodling, Chuck

McLendon, John

Americas

ANDREWS MCMEEL PUB.

Recounts the history of men's college and professional basketball in the United States, and discusses the development of specific moves, leading players and teams, and women's and international basketball

100 Years of Hoops

Oxmoor House

100 Years of Hoops/a Fond Look Back at the Sport of Basketball (Sports Illustrated)

Describes the way basketball is played at playgrounds around the country, defines basketball slang terms, and demonstrates common offensive and defensive moves

The In-Your-Face Basketball Book

Wielgus, Chuck

Wynwood Pr

While basketball didn’t take up residence in the White House in January 2009, the game nonetheless played an outsized role in forming the man who did. In The Audacity of Hoop, celebrated sportswriter Alexander Wolff examines Barack Obama, the person and president, by the light of basketball. This game helped Obama explore his identity, keep a cool head, impress his future wife, and define himself as a candidate. 
Wolff chronicles Obama’s love of the game from age 10, on the campaign trail—where it eventually took on talismanic meaning—and throughout his two terms in office. More than 125 photographs illustrate Obama dribbling, shooting free throws, playing pickup games, cooling off with George Clooney, challenging his special assistant Reggie Love for a rebound, and taking basketball to political meetings. There is also an assessment of Obama’s influence on the NBA, including a dawning political consciousness in the league’s locker rooms. 
Sidebars reveal the evolution of the president’s playing style, “Baracketology”—a not-entirely-scientific art of filling out the commander in chief’s NCAA tournament bracket—and a timeline charts Obama’s personal and professional highlights.
Equal parts biographical sketch, political narrative, and cultural history, The Audacity of Hoop shows how the game became a touchstone in Obama’s exercise of the power of the presidency.

The Audacity of Hoop: Basketball and the Age of Obama

Temple University Press

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Books by Wolff, Alexander

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Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure

Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure

Raw Recruits

Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home

Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home

The Kansas Century: 100 Years of Championship Jayhawk Basketball

100 Years of Hoops

100 Years of Hoops/a Fond Look Back at the Sport of Basketball (Sports Illustrated)

The In-Your-Face Basketball Book

The Audacity of Hoop: Basketball and the Age of Obama