When Pride Still Mattered
Written by David Maraniss
Narrated by Richard M. Davidson
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
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.
David Maraniss
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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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Visão completa da vida e trabalho, personalidade e familia de Vince Lombardi. Superiormente escrito e narrado.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5For the longest time I wanted to know and understand the legend of Vince Lombardi. Now I'm just kicking myself for waiting so long to do so. Fascinating and extraordinary are just a couple of the adjectives that I could be listing for an endless amount of time.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Even if you are not a football fan, this is biography at its best. The all-consuming drive of the man makes for a fascinating character study that never leaves you wanting.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5For the longest time I wanted to know and understand the legend of Vince Lombardi. Now I'm just kicking myself for waiting so long to do so. Fascinating and extraordinary are just a couple of the adjectives that I could be listing for an endless amount of time.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The bigraphy of Vince Lombardi, pro football demigod. My word, what a narrow world view that man had: football uber alles. I sure hope he was happy. I enjoyed reading the book, though I was relieved wheen it ended.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An amazing book with an amazing story about an amazing man.