Paterno

Paterno

From Americaâ€™s premier sportswriter, the definitive, #1 New York Times bestselling biography of Joe Paterno and the story of Americaâ€™s love affair with football.

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 Paternoâ€™s alleged knowledge of those crimesâ€”knowledge Paterno denied until his death. In the process, the name Paternoâ€”the name he had spent a lifetime buildingâ€”came to represent scandal and controversy.

Joe Posnanski lived in State College, Pennsylvania, through the turbulent final months of Paternoâ€™s life and was with him and his family as the scandal that eventually consumed him unfolded. Now with a new afterword, PosnanÂskiâ€™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.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber , black & white illustrations
ReleaseDate 2013-08-06
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781451657500

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	, black & white illustrations
ReleaseDate	2013-08-06
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781451657500

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