{"product_id":"9781608193493","title":"The Hustle: One Team and Ten Lives in Black and White","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe experiment was dreamed up by two fathers, one white, one black. What \u003cbr\u003ewould happen, they wondered, if they mixed white players from an elite Seattle \u003cbr\u003eprivate school - famous for alums such as Microsoft's Bill Gates - and black \u003cbr\u003ekids from the inner city on a basketball team?  Wouldn't exposure to privilege \u003cbr\u003egive the black kids a chance at better opportunities? Wouldn't it open the eyes \u003cbr\u003eof the white kids to a different side of life?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 1986 season would be the laboratory. Out in the real world, hip-hop was \u003cbr\u003egoing mainstream, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson ruled the NBA, and Ronald Reagan \u003cbr\u003ewas president. In Seattle, the team's season unfolded like a perfectly \u003cbr\u003escripted sports movie: the ragtag group of boys became friends and gelled \u003cbr\u003etogether to win the league championship. The experiment was deemed a \u003cbr\u003esuccess.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut was it? How did crossing lines of class, race, and wealth affect the \u003cbr\u003elives of these ten boys? Two decades later, Doug Merlino, who played on the \u003cbr\u003eteam, returned to find his teammates. His search ranges from a prison cell to a \u003cbr\u003ehedge fund office, street corners to a shack in rural Oregon, a Pentecostal \u003cbr\u003echurch to the records of a brutal murder. The result is a complex, gripping, \u003cbr\u003eand, at times, unsettling story. \u003c\/p\u003eAn instant classic in the vein of Michael \u003cbr\u003eApted's \u003ci\u003eUp\u003c\/i\u003e series, \u003ci\u003eThe Hustle\u003c\/i\u003e tells the stories of ten teammates \u003cbr\u003eset before a background of sweeping social and economic change, capturing the \u003cbr\u003eways race, money, and opportunity shape our lives. A tale both personal and \u003cbr\u003epublic, \u003ci\u003eThe Hustle\u003c\/i\u003e is the story a disparate group of men finding - or not \u003cbr\u003efinding - a place in America","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47139064611056,"sku":"9781608193493","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781608193493_p0.jpg?v=1763831245","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781608193493","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}