American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback
American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback
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- Author:Seth Wickersham
- Publisher:Hyperion Avenue
- Pages:416
- Condition: New
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American Kings: The Ultimate QB Journey
The perfect holiday gift for the football fan and American history reader in your life.
The Instant New York Times bestseller
"A MUST BUY" — New York Times / The Athletic
New York Book Festival • General Nonfiction Winner
“An instant classic—not just a great sports book but a great cultural history.” —Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of King: A Life
Pull back the curtain on the most powerful position in all of sports. The New York Times bestselling author of It’s Better to be Feared examines football’s QB lifecycle: high school, college, the NFL, retirement—and all that comes with it.
The quarterback: the American equivalent of royalty, long glamorized, mythologized, and worshipped. Still, long before the Super Bowl trophies, massive contracts, brand deals, and millions of social media followers comes the dream. From the backyard to Pop Warner, from high school to college, from the NFL to the Hall of Fame, becoming the country’s ultimate idol requires single-minded focus while navigating a maze of bad breaks, insecurities, jealousy, pressure, and fame.
Long known as the outsider’s guide into this elite world, Seth Wickersham’s fresh reporting goes deep into the quarterback journey, measuring the distance between what the men who have traveled it expected and what they found at the end of the road. Through unprecedented access into the lives of dozens of quarterbacks and generational greats such as Johnny Unitas, John Elway, Peyton Manning, Warren Moon, Steve Young, and others, as well as those figures striving to be remembered, like Caleb Williams and Arch Manning, Wickersham reveals how this one position has become emblematic of success in American life.
As an inside look into a uniquely American job and a uniquely American obsession with football, American Kings is a must-read for sports fans and anyone who wants to understand what the price of ambition tells us about the quest for achievement and status.
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