Teresa Mull

Caitlin Clark

The Making and Meaning of a Misunderstood Superstar

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Produktbeschreibung

Caitlin Clark: The Making and Meaning of a Misunderstood Superstar takes readers outside of the basketball arena for a Skycam view of the shaping of one of the greatest athletes America has ever produced. Author Teresa Mull, herself a former college basketball player, goes to where it all started: West Des Moines, Iowa, where she chronicles the people and places that influenced Caitlin Clark's rise from a regular Catholic Midwestern kid competing against her brothers in the backyard to a global sports icon. Through interviews, research, and first-person accounts, Caitlin Clark: The Making and Meaning of a Misundertood Superstar offers the deepest exploration yet of how Clark, celebrity-athlete-turned-social-lightning-rod, is shaping not just the public's perception of women's sports, but our entire culture. Mull shows how ever since she exploded on the national scene at the University of Iowa and then single-handedly lifted the WNBA from the margins of pro sports to the hottest ticket in town, Clark has been misused and misjudged and mistreated by her peers and the media. She explains how Clark has come to transform and transfix the world of sports. And she shows how Clark has herself been subject to the distorting pressures of celebrity. The result is a fascinating account of who Caitlin Clark is, how she became an international phenomenon, and what it all means. 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Creed & Culture Books
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2027
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• ISBN-13: 9781967613038
• ISBN-10: 1967613036
• Artikelnr.: 74730652

Autorenporträt

Teresa Mull is an assistant editor at The Spectator World and writes frequently on society and culture for various other periodicals, including  Gray’s Sporting Journal. Her first book, Woke-Proof Your Life: A Handbook on Escaping Modern, Political Madness and Shielding Yourself and Your Family by Living a More Self-Sufficient, Fulfilling Life, was published in 2023. Mull is a graduate of, and former shooting guard at, the University of Dallas. She lives in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania.