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Rising tide : Bear Bryant, Joe Namath, and Dixie's last quarter / Randy Roberts and Ed Krzemienski.
- Title
- Rising tide : Bear Bryant, Joe Namath, and Dixie's last quarter / Randy Roberts and Ed Krzemienski.
- Author
- Roberts, Randy, 1951-
- Publication
- New York : Twelve, 2013.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Krzemienski, Ed
- Description
- vii, 437 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Describes how Joe Namath and Bear Bryant led the Crimson Tide to an Orange Bowl championship in 1965, amidst bloody fights in the civil rights movement and a pair of ethics scandals, to change football's culture and economics.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Prologue: The tower -- "Mama called" -- "Dixie's pride, Crimson Tide" -- The river -- The privileged son -- Playing defense -- Becoming Joe Willie -- "With every force at my command" -- The greatest performance of his life -- "Living like Yankees, playing like Barber College" -- The Rat Pack -- Redemption song -- "Joe moves like a human now" -- Epilogue: In a class of his own.
- ISBN
- 1455526339
- 9781455526338
- LCCN
- ^^2013939673
- OCLC
- 816563675
- SCSB-12061093
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library