POLICY
ABOUT
BILL BRADLEY
Bill Bradley is a two-time NBA champion, former U.S. Senator, and lifelong storyteller. Raised in a small town on the banks of the Mississippi River, he was an Olympic gold medalist and national College Player of the Year, and spent 10 years as a Hall-of-Fame forward for the New York Knicks, winning two NBA titles. He later served for 18 years in the United States Senate, representing the state of New Jersey; and in 2000 was a Democratic candidate for President of the United States. A graduate of Princeton and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, he has written seven books on basketball, politics, culture, and economics, including Life on the Run, Time Present, Time Past, The New American Story, and Values of the Game – all New York Times bestsellers. He currently hosts American Voices, a weekly show on SiriusXM radio that highlights the remarkable stories of Americans both famous and unknown.
WASHINGTON POST
After leaving the New York Knickerbockers in 1977, Bill Bradley banished basketball from his life. He stopped watching it, even on television, flatly refused to play with anyone except his daughter, turned down interviews with magazines likely to play up his past. A member of the U.S. Senate, in Bradley's mind, could not win respect in short pants.
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED
Bradley is the man who launched the great tax-reform crusade of 1986. His ideas, which seemed revolutionary and impossible when he first proposed them four years ago, are now close to becoming law.