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    Paterno
    Paterno
    Paterno
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    Paterno

    Written by Joe Posnanski

    Narrated by Joe Mantegna

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    From America’s premier sportswriter, the definitive, #1 New York Times bestselling biography of Joe Paterno and the story of America’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 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateAug 21, 2012
    ISBN9781442354739
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    Joe Posnanski

    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.

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    • 5/5
      Very well written, brings up facts, doesnt show bias. I listened to Game Over by Bill Moushey and that was biased one sided, not factual. This is the book to liven to about Paterno.
    • 5/5
      Hands done one of the best biographies I've read. Poz does a great job of capturing the true nuance of the man. It's a fair narrative he gives, not trying to whitwash the down side of Paterno or make him something more then he is. The stories are beautiful and heartbreaking. I strongly recommend this one.
    • 5/5
      I ordered this book pre-publication after reading an essay by Posnanski about Joe Paterno in the Washington Post; I liked the way he wrote about the man and wanted to read the book. The book, Paterno, is as interesting as the essay; the book is an excellent biography of the man from his childhood through the Sandusky scandal until his death. Although Posnanski was given access to Paterno’s files and correspondence and spoke extensively with the Paterno family, he was given the freedom to write the book without interference. Joe just wanted him to “write the truth” (p. [379]) which Posnanski appears to have done extremely well. The book gives a well-balanced view of Paterno’s life. The tone of the book is set near the beginning: “This is the story of a man named Joe Paterno, who in his long life was called moral and immoral, decent and scheming, omniscient and a figurehead, hero and fraud, Saint Joe and the devil.” (p. [3]) Although Posnanski gives accounts of many sensitive things which Paterno did, he also exhibits how difficult Paterno was to live with – both for his family and his players. Practices were brutal. Of particular interest is the discussion of his relationship with Sandusky; although Sandusky played for Paterno and coached with him for many years, the men did not get along. Posnanski evaluates why Paterno was so unsuccessful beginning in the 2000s, and demonstrates how much less involved he was in many of the head coach’s responsibilities during that time. The author also discusses Paterno’s unwillingness to give up coaching even though many people, even his supporters, felt that he should have retired years before he was fired. Posnanski points out that evidence appears that Paterno knew more about the Sandusky situation than Paterno himself would admit. However, when the scandal broke in 2011, Paterno did not seem to understand what the implications would be for him; his family had to explain what was happening. A person does not need to be a football fan to find this book an interesting and valuable biography.