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Paterno

Paterno Paperback - 2013

by Posnanski, Joe

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Details

  • Title Paterno
  • Author Posnanski, Joe
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster
  • Date 2013-08-06
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR010174129
  • ISBN 9781451657500 / 1451657501
  • Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.42 x 5.52 x 1 in (21.39 x 14.02 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Geographic Orientation: Pennsylvania
    • Locality: State College, Pennsylvania
  • Library of Congress subjects Paterno, Joe, Football coaches - United States
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

Summary

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 PaternoâÈçs alleged knowledge of those crimesâÈ'knowledge Paterno denied until his death. In the process, the name PaternoâÈ'the name he had spent a lifetime buildingâÈ'came to represent scandal and controversy.

Joe Posnanski lived in State College, Pennsylvania, through the turbulent final months of PaternoâÈçs life and was with him and his family as the scandal that eventually consumed him unfolded. Now with a new afterword, Posnan­skiâÈçs 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.

Media reviews

The truth is that [Paterno] is a portrait very much in three dimensions. In that sense, Posnanski succeedsâÈöWe 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.âÈë

About the author

Joe Posnanski is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including The Baseball 100, Paterno, and The Secret of Golf. He has written for The Athletic, Sports Illustrated, NBC Sports, and The Kansas City Star and currently writes at JoePosnanski.com. He has been named National Sportswriter of the Year by five different organizations and is the winner of two Emmy Awards. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his family.