Paterno
Paterno by Joe Posnanski is a reprint edition published by Simon and Schuster on August 6, 2013. This biography explores the life of Joe Paterno, who coached at Penn State for 62 years, achieving a record of 409 wins. The narrative examines Paterno’s belief in football as a means to teach young men about life, while also addressing the controversies that arose at the end of his career, particularly related to the actions of his assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky.
Readers will find a detailed account of Paterno’s life, from his childhood in Brooklyn to his time at Brown University, and the impact he had on the young men he coached. Posnanski provides insight into Paterno’s character as a stubborn idealist and a dedicated teacher, offering a nuanced perspective that goes beyond the sensational headlines. This edition, comprising 432 pages, delves into themes of sports, education, and coaching, presenting a complex portrait of a man whose legacy became intertwined with scandal.
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From America’s premier sportswriter, the definitive, #1 New York Times bestselling biography of Joe Paterno and the story of America’s love affair with football.
Joe Paterno believed that football was a way to teach young men how to live. He coached at Penn State for 62 years. In the course of his years as a head coach, his teams won 409 games, a Division I record. At the end of his life, more than 100 of those wins were invalidated by the NCAA because of the crimes of a longtime assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky, and Paterno’s alleged knowledge of those crimes—knowledge Paterno denied until his death. In the process, the name Paterno—the name he had spent a lifetime building—came to represent scandal and controversy.
Joe Posnanski lived in State College, Pennsylvania, through the turbulent final months of Paterno’s life and was with him and his family as the scandal that eventually consumed him unfolded. Now with a new afterword, Posnanski’s book delves deep into the life of Joe Paterno, going back to his childhood days in Brooklyn and his college days at Brown, and looks at him through the eyes of the young men he coached. It is a portrait that goes beyond the daily headlines and into the life of a stubborn idealist, a teacher, and a flawed but principled man who, to the very end, loved to coach.
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