The Book of Deacon: The Wit & Wisdom of Deacon Jones

by John Klawitter and Deacon Jones

As one of the greatest football players of the 20th Century Deacon Jones learned that it would take more than size and speed to be the best defensive end in the NFL. He knew that extraordinary mental... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0929765362
• ISBN13: 9780929765365
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Seven Locks Press
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Black Oral Wisdom From The Old Country

This is an attempt to catch time in a bottle, to preserve a bit of a way of thinking for future generations, the actual way the first generations of American negroes thought when they brought their culture from Africa, preserved through the generations in a unique way. One would think it might be better to record this history as an audio book, and there is some truth in that; but oral wisdom can be elusive as a moth in the night; it is best when spontaneous, when it takes flight in unconscious reaction to the events of the moment. The direct observation: the individual who related this wisdom, the legendary football star and celebrity Deacon Jones, freezes a bit under the mike, as most people do. So I did what I could; while writing his biography (Headslap) in the early 1990's, I took hand-written notes, and this book is the result of that often frantic scribbling, to capture as much as I could of the flavor and the essence of the way his mind works, the way his people and his people's people taught him in a direct and unadulterated line over the generations.