Book Description
for When Pride Still Mattered by David Maraniss
From the Publisher
The New York Times–bestselling biography that captures all of football great Vince Lombardi: the myth, the man, his game, and his God.
More than any other sports figure, Vince Lombardi transformed football into a metaphor of the American experience. 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. His leadership of the Green Bay Packers to five world championships in nine seasons is the most storied period in NFL history. Lombardi became a living legend, a symbol to many of leadership, discipline, perseverance, and teamwork, and to others of an obsession with winning.
Written by Pulitzer Prize winner David Maraniss, When Pride Still Mattered “forges a near-perfect synthesis of fine writing and fascinating material. May be the best sports biography ever published” (Sports Illustrated).
“An astonishingly good book . . . A triumph, a classic American biography.” —The Washington Post Book World
“Both the reach of the research and the grasp of Lombardi’s character are impressive. It is a wonderful work.” —Chicago Tribune
“A superb book, one of the best on football that we have.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
“A monumental biography.” —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
More than any other sports figure, Vince Lombardi transformed football into a metaphor of the American experience. 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. His leadership of the Green Bay Packers to five world championships in nine seasons is the most storied period in NFL history. Lombardi became a living legend, a symbol to many of leadership, discipline, perseverance, and teamwork, and to others of an obsession with winning.
Written by Pulitzer Prize winner David Maraniss, When Pride Still Mattered “forges a near-perfect synthesis of fine writing and fascinating material. May be the best sports biography ever published” (Sports Illustrated).
“An astonishingly good book . . . A triumph, a classic American biography.” —The Washington Post Book World
“Both the reach of the research and the grasp of Lombardi’s character are impressive. It is a wonderful work.” —Chicago Tribune
“A superb book, one of the best on football that we have.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
“A monumental biography.” —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.
