Jer� Longman is a sports reporter for the New York Times whose books include the national bestseller Among the Heroes: United Flight 93 and the Passengers and Crew Who Fought Back and The Hurricanes: One High School Team's Homecoming After Katrina, chosen by Slate magazine as one of the Best Books of 2008.
"People say that I struck the first blow for women's sports when I sent Bobby Riggs back into the cave a quarter-century ago, but the story of the U.S. women's soccer team gives me the biggest goosebumps I've had since that night."--Billie Jean King"Wonderfully written, this is an important historical account of women moving from the sidelines to the frontlines of athletic competition in order to claim their rightful place in the sporting cosmos. These women are ferocious, daring, and unfettered. In intimate detail, Longman shows how they have triumphed not only over the rest of the world but over that still-entrenched notion that it's unladylike to win."--Gay Talese"You can't read this book by one of America's best sportswriters without feeling, once again, some of that sweet and mighty joy that swept the country in the summer of '99. By the end I was ready to rip off my shirt in triumph, except that I wasn't wearing a bra."--Dave Barry"Longman is so good a writer that he can hold the reader's interest throughout this absorbing, fast-moving book."--Washington Post
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