The first definitive biography of basketball legend LeBron James by the acclaimed author of
Tiger Woods . LeBron is unquestionably the greatest basketball player of the 21st century .
Off the court LeBron' s political activism outspoken stance on racism and social injustice
have helped build a social media presence that includes 117 million followers on Instagram and
51 million followers on Twitter. He is an international brand worth billions of dollars. He
doesn’t just have huge endorsement deals with some of the biggest corporations in the world
LeBron sits on boards of directors and has an equity stake in the companies he sponsors. He has
forged a close friendship with President Barack Obama and clashed publicly with President
Donald Trump . As a child LeBron was a lost little boy living in a public housing project in
Akron Ohio. His mother who had LeBron when she was just sixteen would disappear for days at
a time. Scared and alone LeBron rarely attended school. He was dirt poor and fatherless. And
he had never played organised basketball. Yet he would become the most successful and most
popular athlete that the United States has produced this century bringing success to the
Cleveland Cavaliers Miami Heat and Los Angeles Lakers . To tell this epic story Benedict
has done exhaustive research digging through thousands of pages of primary source documents
articles books and hundreds of hours of video footage. He’s also conducted hundreds of
interviews with the people who were intimately involved with LeBron from the beginning of his
life to the present. He shows the initial slow rise of a star that suddenly transformed into a
speeding comet during his senior year of high school. It is a unique and unmissable insight
into one of the world' s greatest athletes .
