Last week saw a few high-profile book releases in the politics and sports genre. Leon Panetta’s Worthy Fights invited many views on the timing of the book release. Kevin Pietersen’s much discussed autobiography, KP: The Autobiography, didn’t find any favorable views in the British media and the England and Wales Cricket Board. The aggressive Roy Keane came out with his second biography, Roy Keane: The Second Half, which promises to be a good read for soccer fans as the player discusses his career as a team manager at great length.
Worthy Fights
Author: Leon Panetta
Genre: Politics, Memoir
Leon Panetta was the director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2009–2011, and secretary of defense from 2011–2013. The book covers his early years in California, and charts his political journey from being GOP man to, his appointment in the Clinton administration, to the time he was picked up by the Obama administration and to the all important Osama Bin Laden search and assassination.
Washington post describes Worthy Fights as uncensored, extraordinary, and blistering.
Roy Keane: The Second Half
Authors: Roy Keane, Roddy Doyle
Genre: Sports, Memoir
From 1997 to 2005, Roy Keane the fiery Manchester United captain and before that he has ruled over every midfield and performed at an international level throughout his career. Now as a manager, he has morphed into a strategist and works with the same passion and zeal for his team.
The Daily Mail describes the book as “. . . endlessly absorbing piece of work. It may well be the finest, most incisive deconstruction of football management that the game has ever produced.”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2789533/roy-keane-s-book-second-half-masterpiece-reveals-long-hidden-good-points.html#ixzz3G2178BZr
KP: The Autobiography
Author: Kevin Pieterson
Genre: Sports, Biographies
Kevin Pieterson, England’s highest run scorer in all formats of the game was dropped after a disastrous Ashes tour of 2013-14. The book saw a lot of buzz, although mostly negative. Jonathan Liew of Telegraph describes the book as “. . . this gigantic literary stink bomb, forcing the whole of English cricket into a state of gas panic.” Kevin Pietersen’s woes seem to continue as Vic Marks from The Observer sees the book as ‘settling-the-score autobiography’ that almost never seems to work in the favor of the author.