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More than two decades after his death, Paul "Bear" Bryant's imposing shadow still towers over the sport of college football.

For twenty-five years at the University of Alabama, and thirteen years before that at Maryland, Kentucky, and Texas A&M, Bryant pushed his players to excel with a combination of charisma and fear, winning 323 games and six national championships.

In this definitive portrait of a rough-hewn man with an extraordinary gift for leadership, Keith Dunnavant shows how Bryant survived headline-grabbing controversies and the vagaries of a ...

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"Revised & Updated"

More than two decades after his death, Paul "Bear" Bryant's imposing shadow still towers over the sport of college football.

For twenty-five years at the University of Alabama, and thirteen years before that at Maryland, Kentucky, and Texas A&M, Bryant pushed his players to excel with a combination of charisma and fear, winning 323 games and six national championships.

In this definitive portrait of a rough-hewn man with an extraordinary gift for leadership, Keith Dunnavant shows how Bryant survived headline-grabbing controversies and the vagaries of a changing social landscape to become college football's greatest coach and the foremost Southern icon of his time.

Coach is the epic story of a larger-than-life figure who overcame poverty and insecurity with intense desire and steely will, reflecting the transformational power of the American experience while emerging as a beacon of pride for Alabamians who felt defensive about their place in the world.

Praise for Coach

"The definitive Bear Bryant biography.... The first serious attempt to portray Bryant as he really was...."

—-John Pruett, The Huntsville Times

"Bryant's story says volumes about America and that story is very ably told by Dunnavant...."

—-Geoffrey Norman, American Way Magazine

"Balanced and intelligent."

—-Kirkus Reviews

"A masterful job."

—-The Christian Science Monitor

"Dunnavant skillfully raised my eyebrows...[in] a robust and revealing biography of college football's greatest coach."

—-Paul Finebaum, Birmingham Post-Herald

"A thoroughly captivating read."

—-Larry Woody, The (Nashville) Tennessean

"Thanks to Dunnavant, the Bear has a biography that does him justice."

—-The Sporting News

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly
Bryant (1913-1983) retired in 1982 as the winningest coach in major college football history, with 323 victories, more than either of the legends Amos Alonzo Stagg or Pop Warner. Starting in 1935 at Union College in Jackson, Tenn., Bryant then served as an assistant coach at Alabama and Vanderbilt, spent four years in the service and then coached at Maryland, Kentucky and Texas A&M before returning to Alabama in 1958, where he stayed until he retired. From a background of grinding rural poverty, he found football a means of escape and, driven himself, always favored players whose drive was their strongest attribute. Freelance journalist Dunnavant demonstrates that Bryant was revered in his adopted state because, at a time when Alabama came in for opprobrium as the home of Bull Connor, George Wallace and Bloody Sunday in Selma, he was respected throughout the country as a rugged, earthy yet disciplined and decent man. And while not in the forefront of the battle for integration, it suited him well, for many of the young African Americans who went to Tuscaloosa came from a background similar to his and he understood them. Though hagiographic, this bio makes for good reading. (Sept.)
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Bryant, the legendary football coach for the University of Alabama Crimson Tide, set a major college record of 323 wins during his storied career. In this biography, journalist Dunnavant portrays a poor Arkansas farm boy who became a hard-nosed football player and an equally tough coach. After tours at Kentucky and Texas A&M, "Bear"whose nickname came from a bout with a live animalcame to stay as the feared but admired Crimson Tide mentor. Stressing loyalty and discipline, he did not hesitate to suspend Joe Namath and other transgressors. Updating Bryant's own Bear (Little, Brown, 1974) this account cites the subject's failingsdrinking, smoking, and gamblingalong with accomplishments. Recommended for public and high school libraries.Morey Berger, St. Joseph's Hosp. Lib., Tucson, Ariz.
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Kirkus Reviews
Balanced and intelligent, this is the first biography of the legendary University of Alabama football coach since his death early in 1983, written by a contributor to the Birmingham Post-Herald who interviewed Bryant for his high school paper.

Bryant really was a larger-than-life figure, almost literally. At 6' 3" and 210 pounds, he wasn't much smaller than John Wayne, to whom many of players compared him. His physical size would help extricate him from a life of poverty and hard labor, making him an asset to his high school football team and leading him to an athletic scholarship at the University of Alabama. Bryant played with an intensity that overrode his occasional awkwardness. He was the kind of athlete who, despite a broken leg, would suit up and play against hated rival Tennessee. As a coach, he would encourage the same kind of dedication in his players. Bryant was the last of a kind: the coach as absolute monarch, ruler of all he surveyed from his famous tower overlooking the 'Bama practice field. Dunnavant retells all the familiar stories from Bryant's career as the winningest major-college head coach: his resignation from Maryland after the university's president ordered the return of a player he had disciplined; his fabled first season at Texas A&M, in which he ran off all but 29 prospective players with a diet of two hard practices a day in the desert heat; his battles with the press in two libel suits; his extraordinary string of successes at his alma mater. Dunnavant labors mightily to keep the book balanced. He talks about Bryant's excessive drinking, his recognition in later years that the super-tough discipline of his early days might not be applicable in the Vietnam War era, the occasional coaching mistake that cost a team a victory.

But Dunnavant can't find feet of clay in this hero, nor does he look especially hard. It's just as well, because they probably aren't there.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312348762
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • Publication date: 9/1/2005
  • Edition description: Revised and Updated
  • Pages: 320
  • Sales rank: 335,387
  • Product dimensions: 6.45 (w) x 8.28 (h) x 0.99 (d)

Meet the Author

Keith Dunnavant

KEITH DUNNAVANT, a native of Athens, Alabama, is the founder of four magazines and the author of three books. He has also been an award-winning writer and editor for the National Sports Daily, the Los Angeles Times, Sport magazine, Atlanta, BusinessWeek, Mediaweek, and the Birmingham Post-Herald. Since the original publication of this definitive biography, Dunnavant has been utilized as a creative consultant and expert commentator on Bryant documentaries produced by ESPN and CBS Sports.

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More than two decades after his death, Paul “Bear” Bryant’s imposing shadow still towers over the sport of college football.

For twenty-five years at the University of Alabama, and thirteen years before that at Maryland, Kentucky, and Texas A&M, Bryant pushed his players to excel with a combination of charisma and fear, winning 323 games and six national championships.

In this definitive portrait of a rough-hewn man with an extraordinary gift for leadership, Keith Dunnavant shows how Bryant survived headline-grabbing controversies and the vagaries of a changing social landscape to become college football’s greatest coach and the foremost Southern icon of his time.

Coach is the epic story of a larger-than-life figure who overcame poverty and insecurity with intense desire and steely will, reflecting the transformational power of the American experience while emerging as a beacon of pride for Alabamians who felt defensive about their place in the world.

 

Praise for Coach

 

“The definitive Bear Bryant biography.... The first serious attempt to portray Bryant as he really was....”

---John Pruett, The Huntsville Times

 

“Bryant’s story says volumes about America and that story is very ably told by Dunnavant....”

---Geoffrey Norman, American Way Magazine

 

“Balanced and intelligent.”

---Kirkus Reviews

 

“A masterful job.”

---The Christian Science Monitor

 

“Dunnavant skillfully raised my eyebrows...[in] a robust and revealing biography of college football’s greatest coach.”

---Paul Finebaum, Birmingham Post-Herald

 

“A thoroughly captivating read.”

---Larry Woody, The (Nashville) Tennessean

 

“Thanks to Dunnavant, the Bear has a biography that does him justice.”

---The Sporting News

 

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 12, 2010

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    Paul "Bear" Bryant and His Rise to Fame

    Coach is the story of Paul "Bear" Bryant, and how he rose to fame. He was born in Fordyce, Arkansas, and he learned about the game of football in 8th grade. He played high school ball, and he then played college football under Coach Frank Thomas at Alabama. He played on the Alabam 1934 national championship team. He then went into coaching. Bryant started at Maryland, and was there for one year. Bryant left for Kentucky. He was their for eight years, and while there he won an SEC title. One of his most notable victories was against an undefeated Oklahoma team in the Sugar Bowl. Due to playing second fiddle to Adolph Rupp, Kentucky's basketball coach though, the Bear moved on to Texas A&M. In his first year, he took the team of 100 players to a place called "Junction" to prepare for the season. By the end of it, 29 players returned. He did win one SWC title with Texas A&M though. After four years, he left for Alabama. At Alabama he won 13 SEC titles and 6 national titles. Some regard him at the best college football coach ever mainly because of what he did at Alabama. He produced three Super Bowl winning quarterbacks: Bart Starr, Joe Nammath, and Ken Stabler. He retired in 1982 with an overall record of 323-85-17. At the time, he had more wins than any other college coach had ever had.

    I liked this book because it was not hard to read, and it was a good story. The novel mainly focuses on the Bear's football career, but we do learn a fair amount about his family and friends. I like how the novel describes how his parents were tough on him, because it describes his coaching style a bit more. The book was also easy to follow becuase it began at the birth of Bear Bryant, and it ended with the death of Bear Bryant and peoples reactions to his death. I reccomend this book to anyone who likes learning more about the history of college football, because Bear Bryant changed the game with the way he coached. The book is not too long, so it should not take much time to read.

    I am M. Pate a student at Hewitt-Trussville High School

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  • Posted March 23, 2009

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    Story of the Bear

    Summary
    Paul Bear Bryant, who has won more games than any other football coach ever, died one month and he retired from coaching. The Bear was truly defined by football. Dunnavant begins the book with Bryant's childhood and explains was football meant so much to Bryant as a kid. It was his way out. Football grew on him and he couldn't get enough after college so he became a coach. The Bear went program to program and turned them around using his sharp mind and dictatorship style coaching. But Dunnavant also includes stories from friends and family about the softer side to the Bear. Coach really tells the entire story of the Bear, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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    The book was an overall great read. I really liked how Dunnavant told stories of Bryant as a child, teen, player, coach and a man. The book went in chronological order which made it easy to follow and all the stories flowed with each other. All of this makes you feel as if you were sharing stories with the Bear himself.
    Dislikes
    The only bone I would have to pick with Dunnavant is he did not include too much about the Bear's relationship with his wife and kids. Only twice are his kids mentioned. I can understand if Bryant wasn't close to his family with how much time he dedicated to football but it is very unclear what that relationship was really like. Dunnavant tells about all the other elements of Bryant's life, I hoping I could get a better feel what that was like too.

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