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Landry's Boys: An Oral History Of A Team And An Era
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by Peter Golenbock
Sales Rank: 275971
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Discount: 34 %
List Price: $24.95
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 472 pages
Published by: Triumph Books September 30, 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1572437464
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1572437463
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.2 x 1.6 inches
Weighs: 2 pounds
Book Description
In their own words, Dallas Cowboys from the Tom Landry era-the era that established the Cowboys as Americas Team-recall in colorful detail their greatest triumphs, most heartbreaking defeats, memorable teammates and opponents, and off-the-field controversies.
From the Inside Flap
Tom Landry was a highly respected but little-known assistant coach for the New York Giants before being named the first head coach of the expansion Dallas Cowboys. Stoic and unprepossessing on the sidelines but brilliant and unyielding off the field, Landry guided the Cowboys for their first 29 years, leading them from league laughingstock to 18 playoff appearances, five Super Bowls, and two world championships. So sustained was their success and so magnetic was the way the franchise was run that the Cowboys became known as Americas Team. How did it happen? In Landrys Boys, best-selling author Peter Golenbock goes directly to the source: the men who made it happen. In this oral history of the Dallas Cowboys during the Landry years, Golenbock interviewed the players, coaches, and front office personnel who forged the Cowboys legacy. Revealing, engaging, and evocative interviews include such Cowboys luminaries as Don Meredith, Roger Staubach, Bob Lilly, Drew Pearson, Lee Roy Jordan, Bob Hayes, Calvin Hill, Chuck Howley, Randy White, Mel Renfro, Eddie LeBaron, Frank Clark, Tex Schramm-and Landry himself. Landrys Boys tells how Landry shaped the Cowboys, with exacting precision, to become the dominant team in the NFL; how the assassination of President Kennedy in the teams home city of Dallas seemed to place a curse on the fortunes of the Cowboys; how, in the end, the Cowboys helped to pull the town out of its civic hell; how quarterback Craig Morton almost led the Cowboys to the mountaintop, but was cast down to the shadows by the rise of his successor, Roger Staubach; how Duane Thomas rallied the team to two Super Bowls while waging a war against the games racial double standard. Its all here, from the Cowboys bumbling beginning at the Cotton Bowl in the early sixties to the teams misses later in the decade, its ultimate victory in the seventies, and the crumbling of the dynasty in the eighties. Landrys Boys is the definitive oral history of Americas Team through its first three decades.
Reader Reviews
I am impressed and was entertained and informed. First off, the book has a lot of different voices through the entire book, especially in the early years of the Cowboys. It has good stories, especially where the real story and the published one are different. And while the self-serving antics of Hollywood Henderson get boring, it is a relatively minor issue. Kudos to the author for getting a lot out of Duane Thomas and other tough interviews. The portraits of people like Tom Landry and Don Meredith are nuanced and very human. Only reason it does not get 5 stars is because it ends too early, at the beginning of the Jerry Jones era. Also, a picture of Lance Rentzel is labeled as Lance Alworth, there is reference to Sil Gillman as being an assistant coach of the team and other typos.
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