When Pride Still Mattered, David Maraniss
When Pride Still Mattered, David Maraniss
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When Pride Still Mattered
A Life Of Vince Lombardi

Author: David Maraniss

Narrator: David Maraniss

Abridged: 6 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/1999

Synopsis

In this groundbreaking biography, David Maraniss captures all of football great Vince Lombardi: the myth, the man, his game, and his God.

More 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.

About David Maraniss

David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post 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—Rome 1960; Once in a Great City (winner of the RFK Book Prize); and They Marched into Sunlight (winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize and Pulitzer Finalist in History).

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bob on July 06, 2016

Summary: The biography of Green Bay Packers football coach Vince Lombardi, showing a man striving for excellence in, and caught in the tensions of the three priorities in his life: faith, family, and football. Growing up a Cleveland Browns fan in the 1960's, if there was any team that quenched our ho......more

Goodreads review by Kris on November 09, 2022

There are biographies that highlight, usually, a small part of the subject’s youth - then a brief bit about young adulthood and on to their path of whatever accompaniment they’re known for. Then there are books such as “When Pride Mattered” where author David Maraniss dug so deeply into the life of......more

Goodreads review by Gavin on November 07, 2013

I guess this review is more about the format than the actual book, but sweet bleeding Jesus on the cross, do biographies alway have to be so dry? In any other book, a cohesion of direction and story arc is a must. For reasons unclear to me, biographies exist in their own world...a world in which the......more

Goodreads review by David on August 16, 2020

David Maraniss writes with a clarity and beauty that seem effortless. That’s not easy to do. Starting with Vince Lombardi as a young man, Maraniss shows us how he became the most idolized sports hero of our time. I learned so much along the way. Just a delight. Highly recommend.......more

Goodreads review by Tim on December 26, 2023

Magnificient and totally engrossing biography of coaching legend Vince Lombardi. It has been on my to-read list for several years and I should have read it sooner - it's that good. The book was written in the late 90s so the author was able to interview many of the principal participants in Lombardi......more

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