Minneapolis: Wise Ink, (2015). SIGNED first edition - In 1997, Cooper was "captain of the first all-Black high school rowing team, a crew that launched when he was a student at Manley Career Academy High School on the West Side of Chicago, in what is still one of the most violent neighborhoods in the nation. . . Rowing helped calm the storms within him by instilling practical traits: discipline and determination and a deeper understanding of working as a team." (Christian Science Monitor) This book won the Benjamin Franklin Award from the Independent Book Publishers Association for best inspirational memoir, USRowing gave him the Golden Oars Award for achieving measurable success in expanding the diversity of the sport, and the documentary A Most Beautiful Thing narrated by the rap star Common and produced by former NBA stars Grant Hill and Dwyane Wade was based on this. INSCRIBED on the half title page. 248 pp. ISBN: 978-1940014616.