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Chargement... The Mannings: The Fall and Rise of a Football Familypar Lars Anderson
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Most people who know me well know I don't cheer for NFL teams but rather for the players. Ever since Peyton left the University of Tennessee, I've cheered first for Peyton. After Eli graduated from Ole Miss, I told everyone I cheered for Peyton first and Eli second. Why? I grew up in Mississippi where Archie Manning was pretty much everyone's hero. Of course, as anyone in Mississippi could tell you, after he went to the Saints, he never had a team with talent. I was small when I followed Archie's career, mostly on a handheld radio broadcasting our home state team. I chose to follow his sons' careers. The author of this book does an excellent job of following Archie and his sons through their college years (and that includes Cooper's short-lived career). He even devotes considerable time to the decisions Peyton and Eli made concerning the choice each made to attend Tennessee and Ole Miss respectively. He does a fairly decent job talking about Archie's professional career, basically reaching the same conclusion that we Mississippians stated for decades. Where he fails is in discussing the professional careers of both Peyton and Eli. Both are given fairly scant attention. There is a wrap-up chapter detailing Peyton's injuries in his late career. If the book had been intended to cover only the college careers of the men, this would have been a 4.5 star book, but the lack of detail on their professional careers where they spent far more time tossing around a football than in high school and college combined weakens the book. In spite of the major flaw, this book will still garner a large audience because it is about the Mannings. Football enthusiasts everywhere, particularly fans of the Mannings and the Southeastern Conference, will want to read it. The book uses the "hidden footnote" system which I hate -- where footnotes exist but no one knows they are there until they flip to the back and see them keyed to specific phrases on certain pages. This review is based on an advance reader's copy e-galley provided by the publisher through NetGalley for review purposes. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? From Lars Anderson comes a revealing portrait of the first family of American sports. What the Kennedys are to politics, the Mannings are to football. Two generations have produced three NFL superstars: Archie Manning, the Ole Miss hero??turned??New Orleans Saint; his son Peyton, widely considered one of the greatest quarterbacks ever to play the game; and Peyton??s younger brother, Eli, who won two Super Bowl rings of his own. And the oldest Manning child, Cooper??who was forced to quit playing sports after he was diagnosed at age eighteen with a rare spinal condition??might have been the most talented of them all. In The Mannings, longtime Sports Illustrated writer Lars Anderson gives us, for the first time, the never-before-told story of this singular athletic dynasty??a story that shows us how finding strength in the face of catastrophe can be the key to success on and off the playing field. Growing up, the three Manning brothers dream of playing side by side on the gridiron at Ole Miss. But with Cooper forced to the bench before his prime, Peyton must fight to win glory for them both. Meanwhile, Eli is challenged by his college coach to stop trailing in the footsteps of others and forge his own path. With Archie??s achievements looming over them, the brothers begin the climb to football history. From the Manning family backyard to the bright lights of Super Bowl 50, The Mannings is an epic, inspiring saga of a family of tenacious competitors who have transfixed a nation. Praise for The Mannings ??Anderson, an accomplished storyteller, writes about the Manning football legacy??warts and all??with style and verve, backed by an abundance of research and scholarship.???Publishers Weekly ??An expertly written impressionistic account of the first family of football.???Library Journal ??This is one of the most beautifully written and memorable books I??ve read in years??stunningly spectacular. I couldn??t put it down. Once again, Lars Anderson has shown why he is one of the seminal sportswriters of this generation. The Mannings is an absolute masterpiece.???Paul Finebaum, ESPN college football analyst and New York Times bestselling author of My Conference Can Beat Your Conference ??Lars Anderson drills to the core of the Manning family. I love this book because it??s not just about football; it??s about how to raise a family.???Bruce Arians, head coach of the Arizona Cardinals ??Anderson??s yarn never wobbles. . . . A winner for fans of modern football.???Kirkus Reviews ??Anyone who has paid attention to the NFL over the last five decades understands the significance of the Mannings. They are to America??s best-loved game what the Holbeins are to portraiture, what the Bachs are to classical music, what the Kardashians are to mindless reality television, an unsurpassed dynasty. In The Mannings, Lars Anderson delivers an incisive, honest, and thorough chronicle of the first family of football.???Jeremy Schaap, New York Times Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I formed the impression as I read that the Mannings, or at least Archie and Olivia Manning, had authorized this biography. The book is filled with both direct quotations and descriptions of their thoughts and private conversations. I assumed that the author must have interviewed the Mannings as part of his research for this book. Then I read the acknowledgments, in which the author states that Archie declined his request to participate in this book project, except for some fact-checking. The author instead seems to have rehashed Archie and Peyton's 2000 autobiography.
Anderson credits the work of ten sportswriters as having particular weight in his research; most of these writers, like the author, are or have been at some point affiliated with Sports Illustrated. The Knoxville media has provided exceptional coverage of the Mannings, and Peyton in particular, for more than two decades. Regional sportswriters in Mississippi have been covering this family far longer than that. Anderson seems to have overlooked some rich sources of information by seemingly ignoring regional sportswriters in favor of sportswriters at national publications. This may explain the odd absence of significant events like Peyton's second-place finish in the Heisman voting in 1997 and the knee injury he sustained in the 1997 SEC championship game that limited his mobility in that season's Orange Bowl against Nebraska.
Recommended with reservations.
This review is based on an electronic advance reader's copy provided by the publisher through NetGalley. ( )