31 Top nonfiction books like The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America by Michael MacCambridge

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The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

By: Michael MacCambridge

4.25

Format: 487 pages, Hardcover

“Indispensable history.” –Sally Jenkins, bestselling author of  The Right Call A captivating chr…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America by Michael MacCambridge , here is a list of 31 books like this:

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1. Evel

By: Leigh Montville

3.84

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Leigh Montville, this riveting and definitive new biography … read more

Similar categories in Leigh Montville's Evel book and Michael MacCambridge's The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

By: Ed Zwick

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends … read more

Similar categories in Ed Zwick's Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood book and Michael MacCambridge's The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"One of Patsy Broderick's choicer comments was to describe my writing as ' limp as a penis ."

-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

"I called Matthew Broderick. The radiophone was working again. 'Hi, Matthew, I hear you want to talk about the script. Over .' 'Yeah, well, I have a lot of notes…' He neglected to say “ over ."

-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

"From the moment we met Patsy Broderick was contemptuous, demeaning, and volatile. As Matthew sat in opaque silence, I was forced to defend, in excruciating detail, my rationale for every line in ever…"

-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

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3. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. LIV and Let Die: The Inside Story of the War Between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf

By: Alan Shipnuck

4.14

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Alan Shipnuck, the New York Times bestselling author of Phil, returns with a major new work of insi… read more

Similar categories in Alan Shipnuck's LIV and Let Die: The Inside Story of the War Between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf book and Michael MacCambridge's The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House

By: Jared Cohen

4.27

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author of Accidental Presidents explores what happens after the most pow… read more

Similar categories in Jared Cohen's Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House book and Michael MacCambridge's The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson

6. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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7. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

By: Joe Posnanski

4.56

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to m… read more

Similar categories in Joe Posnanski's Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments book and Michael MacCambridge's The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season

By: Rich Cohen

3.90

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

The gritty, no-holds-barred account of the 1987 NBA season, a thrilling year of fierce battles and … read more

Similar categories in Rich Cohen's When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season book and Michael MacCambridge's The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

By: Keith O'Brien

4.43

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more

Similar categories in Keith O'Brien's Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball book and Michael MacCambridge's The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage by Nick de Semlyen

10. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage

By: Nick de Semlyen

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved… read more

Similar categories in Nick de Semlyen's The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage book and Michael MacCambridge's The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of 60 Songs That Explain the '90s by Rob Harvilla

11. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

By: Rob Harvilla

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."

-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

Cover of Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! by David Zucker

12. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!

By: David Zucker

4.17

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy class… read more

Similar categories in David Zucker's Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! book and Michael MacCambridge's The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever by Matt Singer

13. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever

By: Matt Singer

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more

Similar categories in Matt Singer's Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever book and Michael MacCambridge's The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

By: Adam Higginbotham

4.60

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more

Similar categories in Adam Higginbotham's Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space book and Michael MacCambridge's The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

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15. The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic

By: Daniel de Visé

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, an… read more

Similar categories in Daniel de Visé's The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic book and Michael MacCambridge's The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk by Billy Walters

16. Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk

By: Billy Walters

3.84

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “An insightful read…Walters is a larger-than-life character.” — Sports … read more

Similar categories in Billy Walters's Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk book and Michael MacCambridge's The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century by Dana Stevens

17. Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century

By: Dana Stevens

4.19

Format: 432 pages, ebook

Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and NPR In this genre-defying work … read more

Similar categories in Dana Stevens's Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century book and Michael MacCambridge's The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport by Joshua Robinson

18. The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport

By: Joshua Robinson

4.41

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

🎧Listening Length = 10 hours and 40 minutes NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Wall Street Journal rep… read more

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  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided by Scott Eyman

19. Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided

By: Scott Eyman

4.12

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

The “shocking” (The Wall Street Journal), must-read story of Charlie Chaplin’s years of exile from … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Real Hoosiers: Crispus Attucks High School, Oscar Robertson, and the Hidden History of Hoops by Jack McCallum

20. The Real Hoosiers: Crispus Attucks High School, Oscar Robertson, and the Hidden History of Hoops

By: Jack McCallum

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The true story behind Crispus Attucks High School and the all‑Black basketball team loosely depicte… read more

Similar categories in Jack McCallum's The Real Hoosiers: Crispus Attucks High School, Oscar Robertson, and the Hidden History of Hoops book and Michael MacCambridge's The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Glory Days: The Summer of 1984 and the 90 Days That Changed Sports and Culture Forever by L. Jon Wertheim

21. Glory Days: The Summer of 1984 and the 90 Days That Changed Sports and Culture Forever

By: L. Jon Wertheim

4.10

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A rollicking guided tour of one extraordinary summer, when some of the most pivotal and freakishly … read more

Similar categories in L. Jon Wertheim's Glory Days: The Summer of 1984 and the 90 Days That Changed Sports and Culture Forever book and Michael MacCambridge's The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Once a Giant: A Story of Victory, Tragedy, and Life After Football by Gary Myers

22. Once a Giant: A Story of Victory, Tragedy, and Life After Football

By: Gary Myers

4.20

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

The inside story of the Super Bowl champion 1986 Giants, the extraordinary friendships that resulte… read more

Similar categories in Gary Myers's Once a Giant: A Story of Victory, Tragedy, and Life After Football book and Michael MacCambridge's The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of Kingdom on Fire: Kareem, Wooden, Walton, and the Turbulent Days of the UCLA Basketball Dynasty by Scott Howard-Cooper

23. Kingdom on Fire: Kareem, Wooden, Walton, and the Turbulent Days of the UCLA Basketball Dynasty

By: Scott Howard-Cooper

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Blood in the Garden and Three-Ring Circus comes a bold narrative history of the… read more

Similar categories in Scott Howard-Cooper's Kingdom on Fire: Kareem, Wooden, Walton, and the Turbulent Days of the UCLA Basketball Dynasty book and Michael MacCambridge's The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

  • sports
  • nonfiction
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24. Off the Record

By: Peter Mansbridge

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Peter Mansbridge invites us to walk the beat with him in this entertaining and revealing look into … read more

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  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. The Football 100 (Sports)

By: Mike Sando

3.95

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

From The Athletic, powerhouse of sports reporting, comes the definitive story of the greatest footb… read more

Similar categories in Mike Sando's The Football 100 (Sports) book and Michael MacCambridge's The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Rainmaker: Superagent Hughes Norton and the Money-Grab Explosion of Golf from Tiger to LIV and Beyond by Hughes Norton

26. Rainmaker: Superagent Hughes Norton and the Money-Grab Explosion of Golf from Tiger to LIV and Beyond

By: Hughes Norton

4.22

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A rollicking tell-all from golf’s first super-agent, Hughes Norton, detailing everything from his l… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America by Michael MacCambridge

27. The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

By: Michael MacCambridge

4.25

Format: 487 pages, Hardcover

“Indispensable history.” –Sally Jenkins, bestselling author of  The Right Call A captivating chr… read more

Similar categories in Michael MacCambridge's The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America book and Michael MacCambridge's The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982 by Chris Nashawaty

28. The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982

By: Chris Nashawaty

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From legendary entertainment journalist and author of Caddyshack comes a rollicking history of 1980… read more

Similar categories in Chris Nashawaty's The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982 book and Michael MacCambridge's The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers by Ian O'Connor

29. Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers

By: Ian O'Connor

3.85

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Aaron Rodgers is regarded by some as the most talented player to ever hold the most important job i… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Price: What It Takes to Win in College Football's Era of Chaos by Armen Keteyian

30. The Price: What It Takes to Win in College Football's Era of Chaos

By: Armen Keteyian

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

None read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of Why We Love Football: A History in 100 Moments by Joe Posnanski

31. Why We Love Football: A History in 100 Moments

By: Joe Posnanski

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A moving celebration of the history of American football from the New York Times bestselling author… read more

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  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

26 Top audiobook books like The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America by Michael MacCambridge

Transform Your Habits

Evel

Leigh Montville

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

Ed Zwick

4.03

Transform Your Habits

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Transform Your Habits

LIV and Let Die: The Inside Story of the War Between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf

Alan Shipnuck

4.14

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24 Best audiobook books like The Football 100 (Sports) by Mike Sando

Transform Your Habits

LIV and Let Die: The Inside Story of the War Between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf

Alan Shipnuck

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

Joe Posnanski

4.56

Transform Your Habits

Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess

Evan Drellich

4.16

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