When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi

Using the same meticulous reporting and sweeping narrative style employed in "First in His Class", his classic biography of Bill Clinton, Maraniss separates myth from reality and wondrously recaptures Vince Lombardi's life and times. "When Pride Still Mattered" is the quintessential story of the American family: how Vince Lombardi, the son of an immigrant Italian butcher, rose to the top and came to inspire the entire country. of photos.