First Coming: Tiger Woods, Master or Martyr (Library of Contemporary Thought)

THE LIBRARY OF CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT"The Masters elevated Tiger Woods to a level of fame that perhaps no athlete outside of Muhammed Ali had ever achieved.

People who knew absolutely nothing about golf, cared not at all about the sport, stopped to watch Tiger play.

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He signed endorsement contracts for staggering amounts of money.

He blew off the president of the United States and Rachel Robinson, the widow of the century's most important athlete--and made no apologies for it.

He didn't have to.

He was Tiger.

They weren't."--from The First Coming Read more Amazon.com Review Few things are more fun than reading a book from a writer who's got an ax to grind, an unhidden bias and an argument as sharp as his blade.

John Feinstein, who is as prolific and authoritative as any sportswriter sharpening a, uh, pencil these days, takes a breather from the usual in-depth reportage of big books such as A March to Madness and A Civil War to tee off on Team Tiger in what is essentially a long magazine essay stuffed between book covers.

The First Coming may be short, but like a wily par 3, it's loaded.