The Last Cowboy – A Life of Tom Landry - Softcover

Ribowsky, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0871408546 ISBN 13: 9780871408549

Publisher: Liveright, 2014

Synopsis

As the coach during professional football s most storied era, Tom Landry transformed the gridiron from a no-holds-barred battlefield to the highly-technical chess match it is today. With his trademark fedora and stoic facade, he was a man of faith and few words, for twenty-nine years guiding America s Team from laughingstock to well-oiled machine, with an unprecedented twenty consecutive winning seasons and two Super Bowl titles. Now, more than a decade after Landry s death, acclaimed biographer Mark Ribowsky takes a fresh look at this misunderstood legend, telling us as much about our country s obsession with football as about Landry himself, the likes of whom we ll never see again."

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Review:

[Ribowsky] recounts Landry's life honestly, avoiding both distortion and hagiography while portraying a stoic, flawed man of honor.... A triumph of extensive research and interviews. It will be welcomed by all football fans.

In Ribowsky's authoritative biography, Landry appears more stoic king than coach, his ever-present fedora serving as a crown.... Ribowsky's thorough examination of a surprisingly complicated man offers original reporting, which serves here as merely a complement to this impressively researched work.... An eloquent, honest tribute to a football genius.

Fascinating.... Readers looking for a recap of one of football's greatest innovators and coaches will be enthralled.

[A] huge and hugely entertaining biography.... Extraordinary.... That Ribowsky, an outstanding biographer with books on Al Davis, Satchel Paige and Howard Cosell to his credit, doesn't idolize Landry across the book's 640 pages makes his judgment all the keener.--Allen Barra

About the Author:

Mark Ribowsky is a New York Times acclaimed, best-selling author of fifteen books, including biographies of Tom Landry, Al Davis, Hank Williams, and most recently, In the Name of the Father: Family, Football, and the Manning Dynasty. He lives in Florida.lorida.

About this edition

• Publisher: Liveright
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0871408546
• ISBN 13: 9780871408549
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 736