Item 2: <i>On the Shoulders of Giants</i> Hardcover Book & Audio CD / HoopIQ: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Fundraising Program

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Item 2: On the Shoulders of Giants Hardcover Book & Audio CD

$49.95

In addition to the audio book, you will also receive a hardcover book of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s latest best seller. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is committed to leaving a legacy well beyond the basketball court. In his book On the Shoulders of Giants, the NBA’s All-Time Leading Scorer pays tribute to the black artists, activists, athletes, and intellectuals whose lives have shaped – and continue to shape – his own. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, with coauthor Raymond Obstfeld, views American history and his own life through the lens of the Harlem Renaissance, the flowering of black culture that took place in New York City after World War I. On the Shoulders of Giants celebrates the lives of such influential individuals as James Weldon Johnson and W. E. B. Du Bois and many other people who were the catalysts to the Civil Rights Movement. You will meet the athletes of the Harlem Renaissance and discover the extraordinary history of the first world-championship basketball team, the New York Renaissance Big Five. This book is a thoroughly accessible and engaging mix of memoir and cultural history. Charismatic and controversial Harlem Renaissance leader Marcus Garvey stated, "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without its roots."

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