Richard Weed
08-19-2007, 10:30 AM
I got an email this morning from Amazon.com:
We've noticed that customers who have purchased or rated The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game (http://www.amazon.com/gp/r.html?R=3O6DZCNZJTLU6&C=2Y3RJ2BFX10PU&H=k9VJ8ol7ASFClMHzCrptNyaRf3gA&T=C&U=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2F039306123X%2Fref%3Dpe_5060_6615400_pe_snp_412) by Michael Lewis have also purchased War Without Death: A Year of Extreme Competition in Pro Football's NFC East by Mark Maske. For this reason, you might like to know that War Without Death: A Year of Extreme Competition in Pro Football's NFC East is now available. You can order yours for just $17.13 ($8.82 off the list price) by following the link below.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594201412/ref=pe_pe_5060_6615400_pe_snp_412
War Without Death: A Year of Extreme Competition in Pro Football's NFC East (Hardcover)
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
The four teams in the NFC East have won 10 Super Bowls, and Maske, a sports columnist for the Washington Post, offers an up-close look at these storied franchises throughout 2006. Legendary Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs struggles in his second stint with the team; controversial receiver Terrell Owens tries to make nice with his new employer, the Dallas Cowboys; the New York Giants surge and then struggle under disciplinarian coach Tom Coughlin and young quarterback Eli Manning; and the Philadelphia Eagles adjust to a slow start and a season-ending injury of their star, quarterback Donovan McNabb. The book excels when Maske profiles key characters—such as Cowboys head coach Bill Parcells or Redskins owner Daniel Snyder. Too often, however, Maske offers breezy accounts of games and interviews. He looks at how running an NFL team has become a major endeavor, and while his extensive (if not overwhelming) coverage of the collective bargaining agreement shows how the league has become a big business, it takes away from the stories of a new generation of driven men with limited time, limited earning potentials and big dreams of winning a Super Bowl. That kind of personal touch is missing far too often in this ambitious but anticlimatic book. Photos not seen by PW. (Aug.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Peter King, Sports Illustrated, HBO, NBC Sports
Covering the NFL for the last 23 years, I've seen how hard it's become to get to the heartbeat of why the biggest football decisions are made, how big-ego people can work both together and divisively, and why teams win and lose. Mark Maske gets to the core of all of those in War Without Death, a page-turner you won't be able to put down. Want to know what makes the most powerful people in football, like Dan Snyder and Jerry Jones, tick? Read this book.
Looks pretty good. I liked The Blind Side, so I'll probably pick this one up as well.
We've noticed that customers who have purchased or rated The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game (http://www.amazon.com/gp/r.html?R=3O6DZCNZJTLU6&C=2Y3RJ2BFX10PU&H=k9VJ8ol7ASFClMHzCrptNyaRf3gA&T=C&U=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2F039306123X%2Fref%3Dpe_5060_6615400_pe_snp_412) by Michael Lewis have also purchased War Without Death: A Year of Extreme Competition in Pro Football's NFC East by Mark Maske. For this reason, you might like to know that War Without Death: A Year of Extreme Competition in Pro Football's NFC East is now available. You can order yours for just $17.13 ($8.82 off the list price) by following the link below.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594201412/ref=pe_pe_5060_6615400_pe_snp_412
War Without Death: A Year of Extreme Competition in Pro Football's NFC East (Hardcover)
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
The four teams in the NFC East have won 10 Super Bowls, and Maske, a sports columnist for the Washington Post, offers an up-close look at these storied franchises throughout 2006. Legendary Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs struggles in his second stint with the team; controversial receiver Terrell Owens tries to make nice with his new employer, the Dallas Cowboys; the New York Giants surge and then struggle under disciplinarian coach Tom Coughlin and young quarterback Eli Manning; and the Philadelphia Eagles adjust to a slow start and a season-ending injury of their star, quarterback Donovan McNabb. The book excels when Maske profiles key characters—such as Cowboys head coach Bill Parcells or Redskins owner Daniel Snyder. Too often, however, Maske offers breezy accounts of games and interviews. He looks at how running an NFL team has become a major endeavor, and while his extensive (if not overwhelming) coverage of the collective bargaining agreement shows how the league has become a big business, it takes away from the stories of a new generation of driven men with limited time, limited earning potentials and big dreams of winning a Super Bowl. That kind of personal touch is missing far too often in this ambitious but anticlimatic book. Photos not seen by PW. (Aug.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Peter King, Sports Illustrated, HBO, NBC Sports
Covering the NFL for the last 23 years, I've seen how hard it's become to get to the heartbeat of why the biggest football decisions are made, how big-ego people can work both together and divisively, and why teams win and lose. Mark Maske gets to the core of all of those in War Without Death, a page-turner you won't be able to put down. Want to know what makes the most powerful people in football, like Dan Snyder and Jerry Jones, tick? Read this book.
Looks pretty good. I liked The Blind Side, so I'll probably pick this one up as well.