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About The Book
Joe Paterno believed that football was a way to teach young men how to live. He coached at Penn State for 62 years. In the course of his years as a head coach, his teams won 409 games, a Division I record. At the end of his life, more than 100 of those wins were invalidated by the NCAA because of the crimes of a longtime assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky, and Paterno’s alleged knowledge of those crimes—knowledge Paterno denied until his death. In the process, the name Paterno—the name he had spent a lifetime building—came to represent scandal and controversy.
Joe Posnanski lived in State College, Pennsylvania, through the turbulent final months of Paterno’s life and was with him and his family as the scandal that eventually consumed him unfolded. Now with a new afterword, Posnanski’s book delves deep into the life of Joe Paterno, going back to his childhood days in Brooklyn and his college days at Brown, and looks at him through the eyes of the young men he coached. It is a portrait that goes beyond the daily headlines and into the life of a stubborn idealist, a teacher, and a flawed but principled man who, to the very end, loved to coach.
Product Details
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster (September 1, 2013)
- Length: 432 pages
- ISBN13: 9781451657500
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Raves and Reviews
"Paterno is a portrait very much in three dimensions. It is the story of an extraordinary life."
– Philadelphia Daily News
"Paterno adds grain and texture to the historical record.... makes a cogent case for absorbing Paterno's entire legacy."
– Dwight Garner, The New York Times
"I urge you to read [Paterno]. . . A life is never defined entirely by a man's good, or by his bad."
– Mike Vaccaro, New York Post
"It is exhilirating to read of Paterno the man and gripping to read of his downfall."
– ESPN.com
The truth is that [Paterno] is a portrait very much in three dimensions. In that sense, Posnanski succeeds…We are left with this book as the final record of the final days. It is more than that, obviously - it is the story of an extraordinary life - but it is most compelling as a chronicle of the end.”
– Philadelphia Daily News
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