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All the Dreams We've Dreamed

A Story of Hoops and Handguns on Chicago's West Side

by Rus Bradburd
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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 after the addition of a charismatic but troubled player. Everything changed, however, when two young men opened fire on Harrington's car as he drove his daughter to school. Using his body to shield her, Harrington was struck and paralyzed.
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.
All the Dreams We've Dreamed is a true story of courage, endurance, and friendship in one of America's most violent neighborhoods. Author Rus Bradburd, who has an intimate forty-year relationship to Chicago basketball, tells Shawn's story with empathy and care, exploring the intertwined tragedies of gun violence, health care failure, racial assumptions, struggling educational systems, corruption in athletics—and the hope that can survive them all.

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    May 1, 2018

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      • ISBN: 9781613739334
      • File size: 7345 KB

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      • ISBN: 9781613739334
      • File size: 7345 KB

  • Languages

    • English

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    • Booklist

      Starred review from April 15, 2018
      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.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)

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