{"669547":{"#nid":"669547","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Johnny Smith Author Talk at Atlanta History Center","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow Michael Jordan\u2019s path to greatness was shaped by race, politics, and the consequences of fame\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo become the most revered basketball player in America, it wasn\u2019t enough for Michael Jordan to merely excel on the court. He also had to become something he never intended: a hero.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nReconstructing the defining moment of Jordan\u2019s career\u2014winning his first NBA championship during the 1990-1991 season\u2014sports historian Johnny Smith examines Jordan\u2019s ubiquitous rise in American culture and the burden he carried as a national symbol of racial progress.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EJumpman\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ereveals how Jordan maintained a \u201cmystique\u201d that allowed him to seem more likable to Americans who wanted to believe race no longer mattered. In the process of achieving greatness, he remade himself into a paradox: universally known, yet distant and unknowable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nBlending dramatic game action with grand evocations of the social forces sweeping the early nineties,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EJumpman\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Edemonstrates how the man and the myth together created the legend we remember today.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHSOC Associate Professor, Johnny Smith, is presenting on his new book, \u0022Jumpman: The Making and Meaning of Michael Jordan,\u0022 at the Atlanta History Center.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"HSOC Associate Professor, Johnny Smith, is presenting on his new book, \u0022Jumpman: The Making and Meaning of Michael Jordan,\u0022 at the Atlanta History Center."}],"uid":"36009","created_gmt":"2023-09-08 17:12:40","changed_gmt":"2023-09-08 17:13:19","author":"cwhittle9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2023-11-27T19:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2023-11-27T21:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2023-11-27T21:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2023-11-28 00:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2023-11-28 02:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2023-11-28 02:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"McElreath Hall, Atlanta History Center","extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.atlantahistorycenter.com\/event\/johnny-smith\/","title":"More Information"}],"groups":[{"id":"1288","name":"School of History and Sociology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}