when he joins a predominantly black teen dream team that will be representing the united states in an international basketball tournament in rome jimmy doyle makes some unexpected discoveries about prejudice racism and politics in this awardwinning novel a young basketball star confronts a nightmare of racism in one of the most thrilling climaxes in recent sports writing a unique and epic history eduardo galeanos memory of fire trilogy is an outstanding latin american eye view of the making of the new world from its first english language publication in 1985 it has been recognized as a classic of political engagement original research and literary formfrom precolumbian creation myths and the first european voyages of discovery and conquest to the age of reagan here is nothing less than a unified history of the western hemisphere recounted in vivid prosethe new yorker