Seth Wickersham

It's Better to Be Feared: The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

NOW WITH A NEW EPILOGUE ON THE 2021 SEASON AND TOM BRADY'S BRIEF RETIREMENT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SPORTS ILLUSTRATED • NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR National Sports Media Association • Book of the Year Kirkus Reviews • Best Nonfiction of the Year Seth Wickersham has managed to do the impossible: he has pulled off the definitive document of the Belichick/Brady dynasty. Bill Simmons, The Ringer

The explosive, long-awaited account of the making of the greatest dynasty in football historyfrom the acclaimed ESPN reporter who has been there from the very beginning.

Over two unbelievable decades, the New England Patriots were not only the NFL's most dominant team, but alsoand by farthe most secretive. How did they achieve and sustain greatnessand what were the costs?

In It's Better to Be Feared, Seth Wickersham, one of the country's finest long form and investigative sportswriters, tells the full, behind-the-scenes story of the Patriots, capturing the brilliance, ambition, and vanity that powered and ultimately unraveled them. Based on hundreds of interviews conducted since 2001, Wickersham's chronicle is packed with revelations, taking us deep into Bill Belichick's tactical ingenuity and Tom Brady's unique mentality while also reporting on their divergent paths in 2020, including Brady's run to the Super Bowl with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Raucous, unvarnished, and definitive, It's Better to Be Feared is an instant classic of American sportswriting in the tradition of Michael Lewis, David Maraniss, and David Halberstam.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liveright
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781631498244
• Artikelnr.: 61368928

Autorenporträt

Seth Wickersham is a senior writer at ESPN. He has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award and his stories have been anthologized in The Best American Magazine Writing and The Best American Sports Writing, among other places. He lives in Connecticut.