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A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2022

The definitive biography of Charles Barkley exploring his early childhood his storied NBA career and his enduring legacy as a provocative voice in American pop culture

Hes one of the most interesting American athletes in the past fifty years Passionate candid iconoclastic and gifted both on and off the court Charles Barkley has made a lasting impact on not only the world of basketball but pop culture at large

Yet few people know the real Charles Raised by his mother and grandmother in Leeds Alabama he struggled in his early years to fit in until he found a sense of community and purpose in basketball In the NBA he went toetotoe with the biggest legends in the game from Magic to Michael to Hakeem to Shaq But in the years since he has become a bold agitator for social change unafraid to grapple often brashly with even the thorniest of cultural issues facing our nation today

Informed by over 370 original interviews and painstaking research Timothy BellasBarkleyis the most comprehensive biography to date of one of the most talkedabout icons in the world of sports

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