{"title":"David Maraniss","description":"David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post and a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and was a finalist three other times. Among his bestselling books are biographies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Roberto Clemente, and Vince Lombardi, and a trilogy about the 1960s--Rome 1960; Once in a Great City (winner of the RFK Book Prize); and They Marched into Sunlight (winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize and Pulitzer Finalist in History).","products":[{"product_id":"when-pride-still-mattered-a-life-of-vince-lombardi-paperback","title":"When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this groundbreaking biography, David Maraniss captures all of football great Vince Lombardi: the myth, the man, his game, and his God.More than any other sports figure, Vince Lombardi transformed football into a metaphor of the American experience. The son of an Italian immigrant butcher, Lombardi toiled for twenty frustrating years as a high school coach and then as an assistant at Fordham, West Point, and the New York Giants before his big break came at age forty-six with the chance to coach a struggling team in snowbound Wisconsin. His leadership of the Green Bay Packers to five world championships in nine seasons is the most storied period in NFL history. Lombardi became a living legend, a symbol to many of leadership, discipline, perseverance, and teamwork, and to others of an obsession with winning.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51272358297823,"sku":"9780684870182","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/hUMed9d3pq9780684870182.webp?v=1787813509"},{"product_id":"path-lit-by-lightning-the-life-of-jim-thorpe-paperback","title":"Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eA biography of Jim Thorpe, the Native American sports icon and Olympic champion, that \"goes beyond the myth and into the guts of Thorpe's life, using extensive research, historical nuance, and bittersweet honesty\" (Los Angeles Times), by the bestselling author of the classic biography When Pride Still Mattered.Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. Most famously, he won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, he was an All-American football player at the Carlisle Indian School, the star of the first class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and played major league baseball for John McGraw's New York Giants. Even in a golden age of sports celebrities, he was one of a kind. But despite his awesome talent, Thorpe's life was a struggle against the odds. At Carlisle, he faced the racist assimilationist philosophy \"Kill the Indian, Save the Man.\" His gold medals were unfairly rescinded because he had played minor league baseball, and his supposed allies turned away from him when their own reputations were at risk. His later life was troubled by alcohol, broken marriages, and financial distress. He roamed from state to state and took bit parts in Hollywood, but even the film of his own life failed to improve his fortunes. But for all his travails, Thorpe survived, determined to shape his own destiny, his perseverance becoming another mark of his mythic stature. Path Lit by Lightning \"[reveals] Thorpe as a man in full, whose life was characterized by both soaring triumph and grievous loss\" (The Wall Street Journal).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51274513580255,"sku":"9781476748429","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/GkKI0nSeef9781476748429.webp?v=1787849510"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/david-maraniss.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}