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Paterno

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From The united states’s premier sportswriter, the definitive, #1 New York Times bestselling biography of Joe Paterno and the story of The united states’s love affair with football.

Joe Paterno believed that football was once a way to teach young men how to live. He coached at Penn State for 62 years. Throughout 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 as a result 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 an entire life 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 once with him and his circle of relatives as the scandal that finally 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. This can be a portrait that goes beyond the day by day headlines and into the life of a stubborn idealist, a teacher, and a improper but principled man who, to the very end, loved to coach.


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