Vince: A Personal Biography of Vince Lombardi

by Michael O'Brien and Michael O'Brien

Book Overview

Published to widespread critical acclaim, Vince has been called: "the definitive biography" of an American legend. With stunning revelations and anecdotes, Vince Lombardi's life is pieced together with painstaking care in research, detail, and historical accuracy. Based on more than two hundred interviews, including those who played with him and against him, from his early coaching days at St. Cecilia High School in New Jersey to West Point, the New...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688074065
• ISBN13: 9780688074067
• Release Date: October 1987
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 457 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Thorough, well-researched bio of Lombardi

This is a very good book, but not a great one. Vince does well describing Lombardi through his actions and the impact he had on those around him, especially his former players. Everything is written in a clear and easily understood manner, especially his paradoxical nature.However, it does not clear my threshold as a great book. A great book would have involved me not as a viewer from afar, but as a fly in the locker room. Since O'Brien did not play for Lombardi, I was hoping for more insight of how his players felt. I never got emotional reading this book, and emotion is a large part of what Lombardi was about.Basically, it reads like an exquisitely written research paper.