All the dreams we've dreamed : a story of hoops and handguns on Chicago's West Side

All the dreams we've dreamed A story of hoops and handguns on Chicago's West Side

Rus Bradburd, 1959-

Book - 2018

"Shawn Harrington returned to Marshall High School as an assistant coach years after appearing as a player in the iconic basketball documentary film Hoop Dreams. In January of 2014, Marshall's struggling team was about to improve ... Everything changed, however, when two young men opened fire on Harrington's car as he drove his daughter to school ... The mistaken-identity shooting was followed by a series of events that had a devastating impact on Harrington and Marshall's basketball family. Over the next three years, as a shocking number of players were murdered, it became obvious that the dream of the game providing a better life had nearly dissolved"--Amazon.com.

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Subjects
Harrington, Shawn.
John Marshall High School (Chicago, Ill.)
Urban violence > Illinois > West Side (Chicago)
African American basketball players > Illinois > Chicago.
Basketball coaches > Illinois > Chicago.
Published
Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books [2018]
Language
English
Main Author
Rus Bradburd, 1959- (author)
Edition
First edition
Item Description
Includes index.
Physical Description
265 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
ISBN
9781613739310
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Review by Booklist Review

*Starred Review* This is the incredibly powerful story of two Chicago men, author Bradburd and former basketball player and coach Shawn Harrington, and how their lives have been intertwined with inner-city basketball and gun violence. Harrington was a star at Marshall High School on Chicago's West Side in the early nineties (he had a small role in the classic basketball documentary Hoop Dreams) and went on to play college ball in New Mexico and Missouri. Bradburd, also well versed in Chicago prep basketball, recruited Harrington to play at New Mexico State. After returning to Marshall to coach, Harrington was driving his daughter to school in January 2014 when gang members opened fire on his van. Covering his daughter's body with his own, Harrington was shot in the spine, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. Bradburd's book offers a step-by-step account of Harrington's inspirational journey to reclaim his life, but, on a broader level, it is also a dispiriting and profoundly personal examination of gun violence, health-care failure, and union apathy. There is also plenty here about the corruption that permeates Division I college basketball, and, in that context, Bradburd attempts to atone for the dishonest relationship he fostered when he recruited Harrington to New Mexico State. This unflinchingly honest work insinuates its way into the reader's psyche the way only great books can. Unforgettable.--Lukowsky, Wes Copyright 2018 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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