{"product_id":"a-rhodes-retrospective-volume-i-my-education-9780692415221","title":"A Rhodes Retrospective: Volume I: My Education","description":"Merle McClung's memoir \"A Rhodes Retrospective\" is a two-volume set: Volume I \"My Education\" and Volume II \"My Career.\" In Volume I McClung tells his story from impoverished childhood in a small Midwestern town (Montevideo, Minnesota) to unlikely scholarships to Harvard College, Oxford University and Harvard Law School. His improbable rise from bottom to top socio-economic status, underscored by winning a Rhodes Scholarship, is not a \"rags to riches,\" but rather a \"rags to respect\" story. In his memoir, McClung pays tribute to some of those who made it possible: his working mother (Martha), his public high school English teacher (Claude Dziuk), his Republican mentor (Ollie Rekow) and his Constitutional Law Professor (Archibald Cox). Only later in life does McClung come to appreciate how much basketball has paved the way to a larger world beyond the game.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Merle McClung\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Half Court Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/25\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.59d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780692415221\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMerle McClung is a former Harvard basketball star, Rhodes Scholar, and \"Goodhead\" lawyer. He lives in a big box in Centennial, Colorado surrounded by more than 50,000 books collected since graduating from Harvard Law School in 1972. Likely epitaph: \"He always had room for another book.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Half Court Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40239022735475,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":24.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_60bc979d-6658-4d84-9f23-80ee0d018966.jpg?v=1657112964","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/a-rhodes-retrospective-volume-i-my-education-9780692415221","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}