When Pride Still Mattered - David Maraniss
In this groundbreaking biography, David Maraniss captures all of football great Vince Lombardi: the myth, the man, his game, and his God. The son of an Italian immigrant butcher, Lombardi toiled for twenty frustrating years as a high school coach and then as an assistant at Fordh… Celý popis ↓
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When Pride Still Mattered - David Maraniss
In this groundbreaking biography, David Maraniss captures all of football great Vince Lombardi: the myth, the man, his game, and his God. The son of an Italian immigrant butcher, Lombardi toiled for twenty frustrating years as a high school coach and then as an assistant at Fordham, West Point, and the New York Giants before his big break came at age forty-six with the chance to coach a struggling team in snowbound Wisconsin. More than any other sports figure, Vince Lombardi transformed football into a metaphor of the American experience.
Lombardi became a living legend, a symbol to many of leadership, discipline, perseverance, and teamwork, and to others of an obsession with winning. His leadership of the Green Bay Packers to five world championships in nine seasons is the most storied period in NFL history. In "When Pride Still Mattered, " Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss captures the myth and the man, football, God, and country in a thrilling biography destined to become an American classic.
Parametre
- Výrobca
- TOUCHSTONE PR
- Autor
- David Maraniss
- Počet strán
- 541
- Rok vydania
- 2000
- Jazyk
- anglické
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