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The definitive portrait of Paul ""Bear"" Bryant, the most successful college football coach in history. Just five weeks after coaching his final football game for the University of Alabama, Paul ""Bear"" Bryant passed away. The impact he had on the state of Alabama and the entire college football world cannot be overstated. For twenty-five years as the head coach of the Crimson Tide, and thirteen years before that at Maryland, Kentucky, and Texas A&M, Bear Bryant's outsized personality and deep charisma made him the dominant figure in the world of college football, turning boys with ordinary talent but extraordinary heart into winners--both on the gridiron and off. At Alabama, Bear Bryant would go on to become the winningest coach of all time, achieving the best record in the country in both the 60s and 70s. He is the only coach to win national championships with both segregated teams and integrated ones. His secret lay not in any strategic brilliance he brought to the game, but in his gift for molding individual talents into a cohesive unit that could achieve far more than the sum of its parts would suggest. That ability made him a great coach, but to many, Bryant represented more than just a coach: He was everything a southern gentleman was supposed to be--tough, principled, charismatic, modest in victory yet quick to assume blame in defeat, and as mindful of where he'd come from as where he was going. Coach is not only about the man and his tremendous ability to succeed, it's also a tribute to the South and the legacy Coach Bryant left behind. In a divisive era, Bryant gave Alabamians something to be proud of. And, he was simply the greatest football coach of all times.

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.. .a robust and revealing biography of college football's greatest coach. --Paul Finebaum, Birmingham Post-Herald Balanced and intelligent. --Kirkus Reviews ...a robust and revealing biography of college football's greatest coach. Paul Finebaum, Birmingham Post-Herald Balanced and intelligent. Kirkus Reviews .. .a robust and revealing biography of college football's greatest coach. --Paul Finebaum, Birmingham Post-Herald Balanced and intelligent. -- Kirkus Reviews . ..a robust and revealing biography of college football's greatest coach. --Paul Finebaum, Birmingham Post-Herald Balanced and intelligent. -- Kirkus Reviews

.."".a robust and revealing biography of college football's greatest coach."" --Paul Finebaum, Birmingham Post-Herald ""Balanced and intelligent."" --Kirkus Reviews ...a robust and revealing biography of college football's greatest coach. ""Paul Finebaum, Birmingham Post-Herald"" Balanced and intelligent. ""Kirkus Reviews"""" .."".a robust and revealing biography of college football's greatest coach."" --Paul Finebaum, ""Birmingham Post-Herald"" ""Balanced and intelligent.""-- ""Kirkus Reviews"" .""..a robust and revealing biography of college football's greatest coach."" --Paul Finebaum, ""Birmingham Post-Herald"" ""Balanced and intelligent.""-- ""Kirkus Reviews""

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Keith Dunnavant is a leading American sports writer and historian. His books include definitive biographies of football icons Paul ""Bear"" Bryant (Coach) and Bart Starr (America's Quarterback) and two other classics about the sport, The Missing Ring and The Fifty-Year Seduction. A native of Alabama who spent most of his career in Atlanta and New York, he covered sports business for BusinessWeek and was also a magazine feature writer.

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