Book · 1999 · Nonfiction

When Pride Still Mattered

Name: When Pride Still Mattered
Author: David Maraniss

A Life of Vince Lombardi

David Maraniss

Simon & Schuster · 541 pages

★ 4.7 editorial score

The finest life written of an American coach. Maraniss takes Lombardi from a Brooklyn butcher's son studying for the priesthood to the Packers dynasty, and shows what the discipline cost his family.

Genre

Sports biography Sports Biography

Subject

Football Sports

Setting

United States

Time

1999Depicts 20th century

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