Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Keith Dunnavant
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Imprint: St Martin's Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 21.30cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9780312348762
ISBN 10: 0312348762
Pages: 364
Publication Date: 01 September 2005
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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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 <br><br> Balanced and intelligent. -- Kirkus Reviews <br>
...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""
Author Information
KEITH DUNNAVANT, a native of Athens, Alabama, is the founder of four magazines and the author of three books. He has also been an award-winning writer and editor for the National Sports Daily, the Los Angeles Times, Sport magazine, Atlanta, BusinessWeek, Mediaweek, and the Birmingham Post-Herald. Since the original publication of this definitive biography, Dunnavant has been utilized as a creative consultant and expert commentator on Bryant documentaries produced by ESPN and CBS Sports.
