{"product_id":"when-pride-still-mattered-a-life-of-vince-lombardi-9780684870182","title":"When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003ePath Lit by Lightning\u003c\/i\u003e comes a groundbreaking biography that captures all of football great Vince Lombardi: the myth, the man, his game, and his God.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMore 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Maraniss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/03\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780684870182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/17\/2000 pg. 40\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/03\/2000 pg. 109\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Maraniss is an associate editor at \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e 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--\u003ci\u003eRome 1960\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eOnce in a Great City \u003c\/i\u003e(winner of the RFK Book Prize); and \u003ci\u003eThey Marched into Sunlight\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize and Pulitzer Finalist in History).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"David Maraniss \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47834239631517,"sku":"9780684870182","price":37.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_60c1c22e-ca6c-4e55-819b-9375ac18e74b.jpg?v=1776147222","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/when-pride-still-mattered-a-life-of-vince-lombardi-9780684870182","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}