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"His game, great as it was, was only part of our intoxication," Raab writes.

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An aside: A few months ago, Vicky Raab just happened to run into Mr. Reid on the subway, and she wrote about the chance encounter at the New Yorker's Book Bench blog.

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Though the NBA would surely disagree—last season the Heat refused Raab press credentials after a string of profane tweets about James—basketball could use a little more of Raab's disorderly passion.

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A son of Cleveland who still has his ticket stub from the 1964 NFL Championship, in which the Browns beat the Baltimore Colts—the city's last moment of true sports rapture, which the author attended when he was 12—Raab was one of many Ohioans convinced that the Akron-raised James would restore the aching region's glory.

One Man's Derision Over the Decision Jason Gay 2011

Raab is the author of "The Whore of Akron," a rude but funny book I inhaled not long ago, getting some disapproving looks from strangers for its impolite title.

One Man's Derision Over the Decision Jason Gay 2011

There are jazzy, thrilling leaps—watch Raab hop from John Demjanjuk Jr. to steak salad with Robert Downey Jr. to a weepy meeting with Cavs owner Dan Gilbert—but at its heart, this is a book about loyalty, and why attachments count.

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It's agitated reading, but the book soars because Raab is unflinchingly honest, naked with emotions and embarrassments most of us keep penned inside.

One Man's Derision Over the Decision Jason Gay 2011

Only through the persistence of a group of criminal defense attorneys and reporter Selwyn Raab was the verdict overturned - mercifully before Whitmore could be executed.

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"The Whore of Akron" doubles as a chaotic memoir, chronicling Raab's recovery from addiction, his middle-aged self-loathing, and his fumbling efforts to find his way as an imperfect son, husband and father.

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And what comes out of Raab is not a measured essay, but a howling rage.

One Man's Derision Over the Decision Jason Gay 2011