When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi

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Maraniss, David (Author)

ISBN: 0684870185

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Binding: Paperback; 544 pages

Pub Date: September 03, 2000

In this groundbreaking biography, David Maraniss 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. 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.

Biographical Note: David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post and a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and was a finalist three other times. Among his bestselling books are biographies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Roberto Clemente, and Vince Lombardi, and a trilogy about the 1960s-- Rome 1960; Once in a Great City (winner of the RFK Book Prize); and They Marched into Sunlight (winner of the J. Anthony Lucas Prize and Pulitzer Finalist in History). A Good American Family is his twelfth book.

Maraniss, David (Author)

ISBN: 0684870185

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Binding: Paperback; 544 pages

Pub Date: September 03, 2000

In this groundbreaking biography, David Maraniss 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. 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.

Biographical Note: David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post and a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and was a finalist three other times. Among his bestselling books are biographies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Roberto Clemente, and Vince Lombardi, and a trilogy about the 1960s-- Rome 1960; Once in a Great City (winner of the RFK Book Prize); and They Marched into Sunlight (winner of the J. Anthony Lucas Prize and Pulitzer Finalist in History). A Good American Family is his twelfth book.

Review Quotes:

An astonishingly good book. . . . A triumph, a classic American biography.--Robert W. Creamer "The Washington Post Book World"

Forges a near-perfect synthesis of fine writing and fascinating material. May be the best sports biography ever published.--Ron Fimrite "Sports Illustrated"

A superb book, one of the best on football that we have.--Michael Oriard "The Philadelphia Inquirer"

A monumental biography.--Michael Bauman "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"

A masterly biography. . . . A finely crafted, multifaceted portrait of a life driven by obsession.--Tim Long "The Miami Herald"

Both the reach of the research and the grasp of Lombardi's character are impressive. It is a wonderful work.--Lester Munson "Chicago Tribune"

It is simply a superb biography.--Bill Brashler "Chicago Sun-Times"