Coach The Life of Paul "Bear" Bryant

" Revised & Updated" More than two decades after his death, Paul " Bear" Bryant' s imposing shadow still towers over the sport of college football. For twenty-five years at the University of Alabama, and thirteen years before that at Maryland, Kentucky, and Texas A& M, Bryant pushed his players to excel with a combination of charisma and fear, winning 323 games and six national championships. In this definitive portrait of a rough-hewn man with an extraordinary gift for leadership, Keith Dunnavant shows how Bryant survived headline-grabbing controversies and the vagaries of a changing social landscape to become college football' s greatest coach and the foremost Southern icon of his time. "Coach "is the epic story of a larger-than-life figure who overcame poverty and insecurity with intense desire and steely will, reflecting the transformational power of the American experience while emerging as a beacon of pride for Alabamians who felt defensive about their place in the world. Praise for "Coach" " The definitive Bear Bryant biography.... The first serious attempt to portray Bryant as he really was...." ---John Pruett, "The Huntsville Times" " Bryant' s story says volumes about America and that story is very ably told by Dunnavant...." ---Geoffrey Norman, "American Way" "Magazine" " Balanced and intelligent." ---"Kirkus Reviews" " A masterful job." ---"The Christian Science Monitor" " Dunnavant skillfully raised my eyebrows...[in] a robust and revealingbiography of college football' s greatest coach." ---Paul Finebaum, "Birmingham Post-Herald" " A thoroughly captivating read." ---Larry Woody, "The "(Nashville)" Tennessean" " Thanks to Dunnavant, the Bear has a biography that does him justice." ---"The Sporting News"Dunnavant, Keith is the author of 'Coach The Life of Paul "Bear" Bryant', published 2005 under ISBN 9780312348762 and ISBN 0312348762.