Madame de Stael

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The influence of the salons of Paris on the thought and culture of the eighteenth century would be difficult to overstate. These meeting places for the vanguard of society were presided over by a succession of clever women, and the most brilliant of all of them was Madame de Stäel. Born Germaine Necker in Paris on April 22, 1766, her father was a powerful banker and her mother a Swiss pastor's daughter who never got over her good fortune in marrying a rich man. In 1786 Germaine was married to a secretary in the Swedish embassy called de Stäel. Although she thought him "a perfect gentleman," she also found him dull and clumsy. She began to take lovers—the Vicomte de Narbonne and possibly Talleyrand—and then Benjamin Constant, in whom she at last met her intellectual equal. In 1806 her novel Delphine was published. It was an instant success and praised by Goethe and Byron, among others. Her salon thronged with glittering visitors, among them the tsar, Talleyrand, Madame Recalmier, Chateaubriand, Lafayette, and Wellington. Maria Fairweather gives an entrancing, illustrated account of this vanished world, so merciless to outsiders, but for those of the inner circle incomparably glamorous and exciting.

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Fantastic beyond belief.......2006-06-06

Probably the most interesting transition in European history is from absolute monarchy to democracy, with the noticeable eddy of Napoleon's dictatorship. In literary history, the movement from pastoral romance to sturm und drang ROMANTICISM ranks among the most exciting: marivaudage and bucolic love à la Rousseau can only take you so far. In philosophy, you likewise have the jump from rationalism to Kantian metaphysics and empiricism. How can it be that one person stood at all these crossroads, cultural and political, and wrote thoroughly of them? But she was no mere observer, but a participant as well, probably the only person Napoleon ever feared.

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Major Writings of Germaine De Stael

Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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Bibliographie de la critique sur Madame de Stael: 1789-1994 (Histoire des idees et critique litteraire)

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Bibliographie de la critique sur Madame de Stael: 1789-1994 (Histoire des idees et critique litteraire)
Pierre H Dube
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ASIN: 2600002480

The Birth of European Romanticism: Truth and Propaganda in Staël's 'De l'Allemagne', 18101813 (Cambridge Studies in French)

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The Birth of European Romanticism: Truth and Propaganda in Staël's 'De l'Allemagne', 18101813 (Cambridge Studies in French)
John Claiborne Isbell
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ASIN: 0521032008

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It was through Staël's bestseller, De l'Allemagne, that the term "Romanticism," coined in Germany, reached Europe and America. Around this term, Staël built a new and universal agenda: her manifesto offered Napoleon's Europe an alternative to everything he stood for. In this ground-breaking work, John Claiborne Isbell reasserts Staël's place in history and analyzes her vast agenda, which covers every Classical and Romantic divide in art, philosophy, religion and society from 1789 to 1815. This investigation sheds new light on the two different revolutions that created modern Europe, as seen here by a leader of both.

The Empire of Stereotypes: Germaine de Stael and the Idea of Italy (Italian & Italian American Studies)

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The Empire of Stereotypes: Germaine de Stael and the Idea of Italy (Italian & Italian American Studies)
Robert Casillo
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ASIN: 1403972397
Release Date: 2006-04-27

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In Corinne, or Italy, as in On Literature, Germaine de Stal not only draws from the tradition of Northern European stereotypes of Italy and the Italians, but transmits their influence to nineteenth-century writers and artists. These ambiguous and typically negative representations, which are examined historically in the works of travel writers over nearly three centuries, are shown to be in many instances more than simply subjective constructs, but rather the partial consequence of the decline of Italy from the later seventeenth century up to the Risorgimento. Their deeper implications are considered in relation to prior studies of the Italian national character by Leopardi, Barzini, Bollati, Sciolla, and Tullio-Altan, Burke's "historical anthropology of modern Italy," Norbert Elias's formulation of the "civilizing process," and various theories of alterity and violence, including those of Said, Bakhtin, Natalie Zemon Davis, and Rene Girard.

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An Extraordinary Woman
Vivian Folkenflik
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Germaine De Stael: Crossing the Borders
Madelyn Gutwirth , and Avriel Goldberger
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The Literary Existence of Germaine de Stael (Ad Feminam)

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The Literary Existence of Germaine de Stael (Ad Feminam)
Charlotte Hogsett
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ASIN: 0809313871

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Against the wishes of her parents and the traditions of upper-class French society, Germaine de StaÃ«l (1766–1817) struggled to be accepted as a serious writer. At a time when ladies wrote a little poetry and small stories, StaÃ«l insisted on writing about politics and philosophy.

In an effort to abide by the rules of her society, she wrote in two styles—that of a woman and that of a man—but as Charlotte Hogsett points out, StaÃ«l’s efforts to write as a man could not disguise the woman behind the pen. Hogsett treats both the expository and fictional works in the StaÃ«l canon. The male canon reflects her respect for Rousseau and Chateaubriand; the female, her own courage and intelligence, for there was no one to emulate. Hogsett provides a vivid analysis of StaÃ«l’s maturation as both woman and writer.

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MADAME DE STAEL
Madelyn Gutwirth
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Madame De Stael Et Les Francais (Zaharoff Lecture, 1994-95)

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Madame De Stael Et Les Francais (Zaharoff Lecture, 1994-95)
Simone Balaye
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ASIN: 019815920X

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The French are present throughout Mme de Stael's works, so much so that scholars do not think of studying them in their own right, in the way that the Germans and Italians and other peoples have been studied. Simone Balaye has chosen to consider the social and poitical development of French society as Mme de Stael experienced and observed it, from the Ancien Regime, the Revolution and the Empire down to the Restoration.

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The explosive biography of the greatest college football coach in history.

When Paul William "Bear" Bryant died on January 26, 1983, it was the lead story on the all three networks' evening news. New York City newspapers reported his death on their front pages. ("Crimson Tears," read the headline in the New York Post, "Nation weeps over death of legendary Bear Bryant, 69.") Three days later, America watched in awe as an estimated quarter of a million mourners lined the fifty-five mile stretch from Tuscaloosa to a Birmingham cemetery to pay their respects as his three-mile long funeral cortege drove by.

President Reagan and the three former American presidents sent flowers, as did people as diverse as Bob Hope, ABC's Roone Arledge, advice columnist Ann Landers and the Reverend Billy Graham. Scores of Bryant's former players, including Joe Namath, Lee Roy Jordan, Ken Stabler and Ozzie Newsome, were in attendance. So were Bryant's most distinguished colleagues, the greatest living football coaches, including Southern Cal's John McKay, who said, "It was like a presidential funeral procession. No coach in America could have gotten that. No coach but him. But then, he wasn't just a coach. He was the coach."

Bryant's passing was noted with the kind of reverence our country reserved for statesmen or military leaders, though Paul "Bear" Bryant had insisted for much of his life that he was "just a football coach." For millions he was much more, he was the greatest coach the game ever saw, the heir to the tradition established by Knute Rockne. He took his Alabama Crimson Tide teams to an unmatched six national championships. But to the players, journalists and fans whose lives he touched in his more than half a century as a player and coach, he was the last symbol of values that transcended football—courage, discipline, loyalty, and hard work.

To his critics, Bryant represented the dark side of big-time college football—brutality, fanaticism and blind adherence to authority. The real Bear Bryant was far more complex than either his admirers or detractors knew. While maintaining a public friendship with Alabama governor George Wallace, he continually sought ways to undermine the governor's segregationist policies, finally forcing a legendary football game in Birmingham with the University of Southern California that opened the floodgates to the integration of football at the University of Alabama, including its coaching staff. Old fashioned in his politics, he was nonetheless an admirer of Robert Kennedy, whom he planning to vote for in 1968.

Allen Barra's The Last Coach traces Paul Bryant's rise from a family of truck farmers to recognition as the most successful and influential coach in the game's history. The eleventh of thirteen children, Bryant was born in tiny Moro Bottom, Arkansas in 1913 and grew up in nearby Fordyce—where his legend was born when he wrestled a live bear on the stage of a local theater. Paul was raised by his mother, who barely managed to keep him out of trouble and on the Fordyce High School Redbugs long enough to get a football scholarship at Alabama, where he would meet and marry the love of his life, campus beauty queen Mary Harmon Black.

At the height of the Depression, football took Bryant to the Rose Bowl with Alabama's 1934 national champions and on to a career as an assistant and, finally, a head football coach, where he matched wit and grit with the greatest coaches of two generations, men like Tennessee's General Robert Neyland, Oklahoma's Bud Wilkinson, Notre Dame's Ara Parseghian, Ohio State's Woody Hayes, and Penn State's Joe Paterno. Along the way, he stirred controversy with his infamous "Junction Boys" training camp in 1954, during which almost two-thirds of the Texas A&M football team quit; his legal battle with The Saturday Evening Post over the accusation that he had conspired to fix a college football game, a trial which rocked the sports world; and his pursuit of Amos Alonzo Stagg's all-time record for college coaching victories.

Through it all, Bryant's influence has not only endured but prevailed as his former players and assistants continue to define the best in not only college but professional football. 32 pages of photographs.

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Never be one like him.......2007-08-27

The Bear was the last coach. Now it is a business. Anyone that loves college football, especially SEC football, should read this book. Barra has done a good job capturing the times of Paul "Bear" Bryant.

Roll Tide Roll!.......2007-05-31

From the Junction boy days and even earlier. This book has it all. One of my favorites! Excellent reading!

The Last Coach: A life of Paul "Bear" Bryant.......2007-01-20

If you loved Bear Bryant and Alabama football you will enjoy this book.
There has never been anybody quite like the Bear. He was with out a doubt the greatest coach that ever lived, but besides that he was a great man. He did so much for so many young people. He helped a lot of them get an education that they might not have gotten if not for him. He gave a lot that people never knew about. Any one who loves college football will enjoy this book, but this is a must read for Bama fans!

Avid football fans who are also readers will be engrossed........2006-10-15

THE LAST COACH: A LIFE OF PAUL 'BEAR' BRYANT comes from a noted sportswriter who offers up a fine survey of the life of college football's finest coach, leader of numerous college teams who went on to victory. THE LAST COACH not only recreates Bryant's life, but offers up a history of his times and college football's winning moments - avid football fans who are also readers will be engrossed.

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A Legend Remembered .......2006-09-26

I read this book from cover to cover very quickly. The book was both revealing to me about the more human side of Coach Bryant as well as a wonderful opportunity to walk down the memory lane of Alabama football in the 1970s. To me the book was more of a compilation of thoughts, notes, and interviews through the years, but in its own way provides a unique kind of insight to the John Wayne of college football coaches.

Coach Bryant was not a perfect man, but I must agree with the author that there are those who are role models and there are those who mold and build role models. Coach Bryant in his legendary, yet imperfect way, was just that to countless people. Many of them, like me, never met Coach Bryant, but in some way find ourselves focusing, working harder, and trying to overcome the odds because Coach did it and if he can do it, then we can too. Long live the legend of Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant

Bear The Legendary Life of Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant

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Bear The Legendary Life of Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant
Don Keith
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ASIN: 1581825625

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Four days after the funeral of legendary Alabama football coach Paul Bryant, the coach's bodyguard, Billie Varner, was helping Bryant's longtime secretary, Linda Knowles, clean out the Bear's office. Packed boxes and memorabilia lay everywhere. A nameplate and a few yet-empty boxes were all that was left on his huge desk, his high-back chair sitting empty as if waiting for Coach to step through the door once again, sit down, light up a Chesterfield, and make a call to Pat Dye. Finally the last box was sealed, and Varner said to Knowles, "If it's all right with you, let's just stay in here for a little bit longer. I'm hurtin' too damn bad to leave right now."
After a few silent moments, Varner sighed, a sad look on his face, and with a breaking voice said, "Linda, it won't be anything like he said it was going to be. You know, he always said he'd be forgotten as soon as we laid him to rest."
Soon he was recalling a recent trip he had taken with Bryant. "You can bet I heard some more of that kind of talk," he reminisced. "He knew his time was up, and he wanted to go back to Fordyce one more time. He did some talkin' while we rode, almost like he was reviewing his whole life, like he was determined to explain all those memories we just packed away."
"Did he seem happy, Billy?" Knowles asked. "On the trip, I mean?"
"Yeah, he did. He was as content as I've ever seen him." Varner exhaled more smoke, watching it climb toward the ceiling, and a broad grin spread over his face, the first in days. "And you should have heard the stories he told, the things he remembered. Every place we passed, it seemed to kick off a memory or story he had been waitin' to tell somebody for years."
Varner laughed out loud and eased back farther on the couch. He ignored the long ash on his cigarette, even when it broke off and fell onto his shirtfront in a gray smudge. He was remembering. Remembering the Coach's stories, just the way he spilled them out for him on that final trip home.
Home to Arkansas, where it all began. The story of The Coach.

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very very good - very entertaining.......2007-02-13

Paul "Bear" Bryant begins with Bryant's death and then flashes back to his early life growing up as a poor farm boy in Arkansas. We are presented with stories that establish Bryant's toughness, his willingness to work hard and his drive to become a winner, including the story of how he earned the nickname "Bear".

The book confirms that Bryant was a manipulative SOB who loved his Chesterfield cigarettes and whiskey, but above all loved winning. It presents him as a man who would accept nothing but the best from his players and himself. He was hard when he had to be but taught that hard work was that which made champions. The book doesn't shy away from the more controversial aspects of his coaching career, such as his tenure at Texas A&M where in his first year he drove away all of the players he considered slackers.

Fans will enjoy the book's take on college football as it evolved throughout Bryant's career, particularly the section on Texas A&M's NCAA probation for paying players. Bryant's complaint was that everyone else was doing the same, but only the Aggies were being persecuted for it. The book portrays the 'Bear' as a humble man, denying his greatness even when he surpassed Pop Warner and Amos Alonzo Stagg in all-time wins. Some of the stories about Bryant's antics will have you laughing out loud.

The only negative aspect of the book is the confusion that results when it jumps from one point in Bryant's life to the next without warning. Since it's written in a story-like style instead of a documentary format like most biographies, it's a very enjoyable read. It's understandable why the legend of Bear Bryant is very much alive and continues to grow because by the end of the book, you can't help but admire Bryant and feel much closer to him as a person.

Enthusiastically recommended reading especially for football fans........2006-12-10

Award-wining newswriter Don Keith presents The Bear: The Legendary Life of Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant, a most unusual biography of charismatic football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant. The Bear is based upon a screenplay by Al Browning, Jr. and reads like a fluid novel, yet firmly grounded in actual events and corrects common inaccuracies or misperceptions held about Paul Bryant to this day. A handful of black-and-white photographic plates illustrate this true tale of the vivacious man who turned around a struggling football program in Alabama, led the record in career victories for a college football coach, with 323 major-college wins and had the loyalty and steadfast determination to resist a $1.7 million offer to coach for the Miami Dolphins. Enthusiastically recommended reading especially for football fans.

Awesome Book.......2006-11-10

If you are an Alabama fan you will love this book. It is a quick read and very interesting.

Bear: My Hard Life & Good Times As Alabama's Head Coach with CD

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Bear: My Hard Life & Good Times As Alabama's Head Coach with CD
Paul W. Bryant , and John Underwood
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ASIN: 1572438886

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Paul "Bear" Bryant created legendary, successful football programs at Kentucky, Texas A&M, and the University of Alabama. Bryant redefined coaching excellence through his unique communication and care for players. Using his coaching methods, he achieved an amazing 323 victories and shaped players such as Babe Parilli, Heisman Trophy winner John David Crow, and Joe Namath. In Bear and the audio CD, Bear Bryant: Speaking from the Heart, Bryant tells his life story with candor and insight, giving the reader a chance to understand the man behind the legend.

Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant

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Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant
Paul W. & John Underwood Bryant
Manufacturer: Bantam
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Good Reading, But......
Great Read
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Pathetic
Well-done biography

Coach: The Life of Paul "Bear" Bryant
Keith Dunnavant
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ASIN: 0312348762
Release Date: 2005-08-11

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For twenty-five years as the head coach of the Crimson Tide of Alabama, and thirteen years before that at Maryland, Kentucky and Texas AM, Bear Bryants outsized personality made him the dominant figure in the world of college football. At Alabama, Bryant would go on to become one of the winningest coaches of all time. But to many, he represented more than just a coach: He was everything a southern man was supposed to betough, principled, charismatic, modest in victory, yet quick to assume blame in defeat. In this definitive portrait of one of the greatest coaches in college football history, Keith Dunnavant gives us Paul Bear Bryant, the rough-hewn man with an extraordinary gift for leadership.

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Good Reading, But.............2007-03-31

"Coach" is a well researched biography of Paul Bear Bryant, but like many of the other books written about Bryant, author Dunnavant is relunctant to tread on issues that might tarnish the image of the man in the houndstooth hat. For instance Dunnavant's reporting about the Condredge Holloway recruiting story is interesting; but Dunnavant does not allow himself to express how Bryant could have become a conduit for change regarding the civil rights movement in the South. Dunnavant quotes Bryant as saying "I'd love to have you ( Holloway) at Alabama, but Alabama's not ready for a black quaterback". That one sentence tells me that Bryant lacked the courage and moral integrity to change the acceptance of Blacks as leaders in the state of Alabama. Instead Bryant shrewedly hedged his position with the likes of George Wallace. Dunnavant also quotes Bryant as saying "We're not recruiting Negro athletes; that's a policy decision for others to make". According to Dunnavant, Bryant made that quote in a 1965 interview for Look magazine. Paul Bryant wielded tremendous power and influence; he could have been that individual to change "policy decisions". Instead 2,000 miles away, in a town nearly void of Blacks called Green Bay, Wisconsin, Vince Lombardi took the stand that Bryant backed away from. Lombardi did not see white or black players, he saw players that were Green Bay Packers. It should also be noted that Lombardi sought out Black players as early as 1958, seven years before Bryant's interview with Look magazine. Bryant was "forced" to recruit black players at Alabama when he realized that he could not compete with other Division I programs with an all white Crimson Tide team. Dunnavant also reluctantly avoids any mention of the unlimited NCAA football scholarships that Bryant took full advantage of. When Bryant's winning teams were storming through the South in the 1960's and early 70's they did it with close to a hundred players on football scholarships. Since the University of Alabama placed such a high premium on its football program, the university could spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on players; money that other Division I colleges in the South would not do. A 18 year old boy in the South recruited by Bryant had an easy choice. Get a full 4 year scholarship and maybe play 2nd or 3rd team (that is why Bryant's platoon system worked so well) or be a back-up at another university as a non-scholarship player. Bryant stockpiled scholarship players because he had deeper pockets than other coaches. When the NCAA limited football scholarships to 30 incoming freshman; (75 total) things began to change at the University of Alabama. How many national championships has Alabama won since the Bryant era? Not many. The final issue that Dunnavant avoids is Bryant's record against Bowl teams. Sure Bryant's teams made it to 29 bowl games, which Dunnavant cites in bold print on p. 331. But Dunnavant omits that Byant won only 15 of those bowl games. This is barely above a .500 winning percentage, well below Bryant's lifetime winning percentage of .780. When the playing field was even and Alabama began to face football powers outside its conference, Bryants success diminished. Dunnavant fails to make any mention of this glaring fact. A Bear Bryant team, never beat Notre Dame. Bryant's teams were 17-14-3, against Tennessee, the only other formidable SEC team during the Bryant era. It was easy for Alabama to steamroll over SEC teams that the Crimson Tide were "locked into" such as Vanderbilt, Southern Mississippi, Virginia Tech, Tulane, and Mississippi State. Lombardi's Packer teams of the 1960's lost 1 playoff game, the NFL championship to the Eagles in 1960. The Packers never lost a playoff game again under Lombardi, and they went on to win 5 NFL championships, 3 championships in a row. I have read 5 books about Bear Bryant. He was a very good football coach who demanded commitment and excellence from his players and coaches. What I still don't feel from my readings, especially from this book, is a sense of Bryant's character,integrity, and human emotion. It seemed that author Dunnavant wrote this book high atop Bryant's famed practice tower, afraid to expose the soul of a man who is considered great by many, but is considered shallow by this reader.

Great Read.......2006-06-17

All told, "Coach: The Life of Paul 'Bear' Bryant" is probably the best in-depth analysis of Bryant as not only a coach but as a man. Although "The Last Coach", a new Bryant biography, may eventually take this particular book's place in that regard, this is nonetheless the standard text for those seeking an in-depth look at Paul "Bear" Bryant.

Most Bryant biographies lack depth and real analysis, and mostly just repeat common knowledge such as "Mama called", etc. However, this particular book thoroughly analyzes and details Bryant as he grew up in the Moro Bottoms of rural Arkansas, and what were the influences that shaped his life. It has a great section regarding Bryant as a player, and the writing on Bryant as a coach is particularly good, dealing with Bryant's views on the psychology, philosophy and strategy of the game. Moreover, the sections of the book regarding the Bryant / Butts scandal, and the Holt / Granning incident are all particularly good.

I would recommend this to anyone looking to read about Bryant.

B. Harris.......2006-01-04

Dunnavant just doesn't deliver with his enamoured account of Bryant.

I suggest "The Last Coach: A Life of Paul "Bear" Bryant" by Allen Barra.

Pathetic.......2005-01-02

Bryant was a great coach, but Dunnavant is a Bryant fan, plain and simple. He tells a sweet and sugary account of Bear's storied life, and leaves out the true tales of Bear's excessive drinking and also of his extra marital adventures. A "fan" should never write a "biography" about his or her hero. I think Bryant was an outstanding coach, but you'll have to look elsewhere if you want any REAL enlightenment about the life and times of Bear Bryant.....

Well-done biography.......2002-10-12

Mr. Dunnvant admits from the beginning that, like many Alabamians, he grew up in awe of Paul Bryant. But he has succeeded in writing a fair, balanced portrayal of a complicated man. Bryant's failings are not glossed over, nor are they treated with sensationalism. A solid biography and a good read for college football fans.

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A very good book
A guide for working with others for the rest of your life
A look inside the coach, the legend, but especially the man.

Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant
Paul W. (Bear) Bryant , and John Underwood
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A very good book.......2004-05-04

I recommend this book to die hard Bama fans. Bear will always be loved and remembered and this is a good way to continue the legacy. I liked it. I also recommend a "Tailgater's Guide To SEC Football" by Chris Warner. It is good too for SEC fans like me that travel to the games.

A guide for working with others for the rest of your life.......2000-07-10

A fascinating book whether a sports fan or not. Paul Bryant's legendary motivational skills coming ringing clear in this highly entertaining account of his life from his impoverished childhood in Morrow Bottom, Arkansas to his rise to the top as coach of one the country's most tradition rich football powers. Whether a coach, CEO or just head of the household, everyone can learn from this captivating account of the life of one of the greatest leaders of young men ever, Paul W. Bryant!

A look inside the coach, the legend, but especially the man........1999-10-08

Follow as the legendary Coach Paul W. "Bear" Bryant retraces his life from childhood to Alabama's 1974 Sugar Bowl national championship game with Notre Dame. It is a look inside a man among men and a mover of men.

Coach Bryant retraces his life offering advice on his ability to lead. His unique gift of motivation drip from the pages of this modern classic.

For potential Leaders in all walks of life, this book is a must-read. It is the modern day equivalent to Sun-Tzu's Art of War.

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Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant
Paul W.: Underwood, John Bryant
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BEAR THE HARD LIFE AND GOOD TIMES OF ALABAMA'S COACH BRYANT
Paul W. and John Underwood Bryant
Manufacturer: Little Brown & Company
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BEAR THE HARD LIFE AND GOOD TIMES OF ALABAMA'S COACH BRYANT
Paul W. and John Underwood Bryant
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Paul W. and John Underwood Bryant
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