Author Description

Remarkable memoir from one of America’s most colorful, dynamic and respected senators.Bill Bradley is one of the most admired figures in American public life. In a memoir at once deeply felt, lively and astute, he talks about his life, his country, his role in government and his hopes for the future. He speaks with affection about his small-town Missouri upbringing and traces his road from childhood to Princeton and Oxford, to ten years of professional basketball and public service in the US Senate. Bradley describes his many voyages of exploration across America – to urban ghettos, coal-country Appalachia, Sioux reservations and bars in Detroit, and he tells of the scoundrels and heroes, the celebrated political figures past and present who have crossed his path.But this is more than an account of his life. He spends much of the book outlining his interpretation of American history, his solutions for the great divides of race and economic status and his belief in a truth-telling leadership which does not shirk reality. Not only is Bradley’s book a remarkable memoir, it is a book about life, filled with humour, moral lessons and empathy for the human condition. Above all, it is a book about America – its past and its future.