HOME || Art|| Biography || Business || Crime Stories || Fiction || Foreign Languages|| Healthy Living || History || Humor ||
Kids Books Radio Shows || Spiritual || Self Help || TV/Film ||

 
When Pride Still Mattered
Play Windows Media Sample  Play Real Sample

When Pride Still Mattered

David Maraniss
Narrated By : David Maraniss
Published By : Simon & Schuster
5 hours
Categories : Sports
Download Price : $25.00 $17.95
Purchase...

When Pride Still Mattered is the quintessential story of the American family:

How Vince Lombardi, the son of an immigrant Italian butcher, rose to the top, and how his character and will to prevail transformed him, his wife, his children, his players, his sport, and ultimately the entire country.

It is also a vibrant football story, abundant with accounts of Lombardi's thrilling life in that world, from his playing days with the Seven Blocks of Granite at Fordham in the 1930s to the glory of coaching the Green Bay Packers in the 1960s.

It is also a study of national myths, tracing what Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Maraniss calls the fallacy of the innocent past, and an absorbing account of the mythmakers from Grantland Rice to Howard Cosell who shaped Lombardi's image.

By the time he died of cancer in 1970, after one season in Washington during which he transformed the Redskins into winners, Lombardi had become a mythic character who transcended sport, and his legend has only grown in the decades since.

In When Pride Still Mattered, Maraniss renders Lombardi as flawed and driven yet ultimately misunderstood, a heroic figure who was more complex and authentic than the stereotypical images of him propounded by admirers and critics.

Using the same meticulous reporting and sweeping narrative style that he employed in First in His Class, his classic biography of Bill Clinton, Maraniss separates myth from reality and wondrously recaptures Vince Lombardi's life and times.

Other Audiobooks you may be interested in :

No Room for Error

No Room for Error

John T Carney and Benjamin F Schemmer
Narrated By : Barrett Whitener
Published By : Listen & Live
4 hours 30 minutes
Categories : Military
Military
Download Price : $27.95 $18.25
When the U.S. Air Force decided to create an elite "special tactics" team in the late 1970s to work with special-operations forces, John T. Carney was the man they turned to. View...
Lives of The Artists Vol. 1

Lives of The Artists Vol. 1

Giorgio Vasari, translated by George Bull
Narrated By : Nadia May
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
19 hours
Categories : Biography
Download Price : $49.95 $36.95
Vasari described the lives of great artists with striking immediacy conveyed through character sketches, anecdotes, and detailed recording of conversations. Volume one includes Brunelleschi, da Vin... View...
Life and Works of W.B. Yeats, The

Life and Works of W.B. Yeats, The

John Kavanagh
Narrated By : Full Cast Production
Published By : Select Music & Distribution
2 hours 35 minutes
Categories : Biographical
Arts & Drama
Poetry
Download Price : $11.99
Born in Dublin in 1865, Yeats drew strength from the Irish tradition, as can be seen in this special audiobook which presents the most important poems in the context of his life and ambitions. View...
Central Europe

Central Europe

Ralph Raico
Narrated By : Richard C. Hottelet
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
3 hours
Categories : Politics
Download Price : $12.95
Central Europe's ancient civilizations have long been dominated by empires: The Roman Empire, the Habsburg Empire (based in Austria) and more recently, the Soviet Communist. But the decline of comm... View...
Fantastic

Fantastic

Laurence Leamer
Narrated By : Mel Foster
Published By : Brilliance Audio Inc
8 hours 3 minutes
Categories : Politics
TV & Film
Download Price : $24.95
Preeminent Kennedy biographer Laurence Leamer looks at the amazing and colorful life of Arnold Schwarzenegger. View...
Audio Books - Create a Free Blog