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When pride still mattered : a life of Vince Lombardi
- Title
- When pride still mattered : a life of Vince Lombardi / David Maraniss.
- Author
- Maraniss, David.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, [1999], ©1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | GV939.L6 M37 1999 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 541 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "When Pride Still Mattered is the quintessential story of the American family: how Vince Lombardi, the son of an immigrant Italian butcher, rose to the top, and how his character and will to prevail transformed him, his wife, his children, his players, his sport, and ultimately the entire country.
- It is also a vibrant football story, abundant with accounts of Lombardi's thrilling life in that world, from his playing days with the Seven Blocks of Granite at Fordham in the 1930s to the glory of coaching the Green Bay Packers of Starr, Hornung, Taylor, McGee, Davis, and Wood in the 1960s.
- It is also a study of national myths, tracing what Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Maraniss calls the fallacy of the innocent past, and an absorbing account of the mythmakers from Grantland Rice to Howard Cosell who shaped Lombardi's image."--BOOK JACKET.
- Alternative Title
- Life of Vince Lombardi
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [517]-518 ) and index.
- ISBN
- 0684844184
- LCCN
- 99037859
- OCLC
- ocm41620025
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries