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When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi

David Maraniss

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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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publish Date: Sep 3rd, 2000
  • Pages: 544
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.10in - 6.10in - 1.40in - 1.28lb
  • EAN: 9780684870182
  • Categories: • Football• Sports• Coaching - General

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About the Author

Maraniss, David: - 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 Lukas Prize and Pulitzer Finalist in History).

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Matt Verderame
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Matt Verderame is a sports reporter who covers the NFL.

To this end, if you've never read When Pride Still Mattered by @davidmaraniss on Lombardi, you should rectify that immediately. It's one of the best books I've ever read

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Great sportswriting, handpicked. A companion to @longform.

"When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi" Searching for the man behind the stereotypes. http://t.co/q8bM2eyl (@DavidMaraniss)

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Michael Lombardi
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GMShuffle Pod, @TheDaily_Coach | Proud husband, father of 2 coaches, 2 amazing daughters-in-law, 4 grandsons, 1 beautiful granddaughter 2 lagottos & 3SB rings.

@dhicks00 @AdamMFrey1 Clinton, first in his class, not political--insightful. when Pride Still Mattered, they Marched into Sunlight, all by David Maraniss. Any Amor Toles novel, or Widow for 1 Year, John Irving

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"An astonishingly good book. . . . A triumph, a classic American biography."

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