Levels of the Game

This may be the high point of American sports journalism. (Robert Lipsyte, The New York Times) McPhee has produced what is probably the best tennis book ever written. On the surface it is a joint profile of . . . Arthur Ashe and Clark Graebner, but underneath it is considerably more--namely, a highly original way of looking at human behavoir . . . He proves his point with consummate skill and journalistic artistry. You are the way you play, he is saying. The court is life. (Donald Jackson, Life...