From America’s premier sportswriter, the definitive, #1 NY Occasions bestselling biography of Joe Paterno and the tale of America’s love affair with football.

Joe Paterno believed that soccer was a way to teach teenagers how exactly to live. He coached at Penn Condition for 62 years. Throughout his years as a mind coach, his teams won 409 games, a Division I record. By the end of his life, a lot more than 100 of these wins had been invalidated by the NCAA because of the crimes of the longtime assistant about Paterno coach, Jerry Sandusky, and Paterno’s alleged knowledge of those crimes-knowledge Paterno refused until his death. In the process, the name Paterno-the name he previously spent a lifetime building-came to represent scandal and controversy.

Joe Posnanski lived in Condition College, Pa, through the turbulent last months of Paterno’s life and was with him and his family members as the scandal that eventually consumed him unfolded. Right now with a new afterword, Posnan­ski’s book delves deep in to the existence of Joe Paterno, heading back to his youth times in Brooklyn and his university days at Dark brown, and looks at him through the eye of the young men he coached. It is a family portrait that will go beyond the daily headlines and in to the life of a persistent idealist, a teacher, and a flawed but principled man who, to the end, loved to teach.