The Last Cowboy

A Life of Tom Landry

De: Mark Ribowsky

Narrado por: Peter Berkrot

As the coach during professional football’s most storied era, Tom Landry transformed the gridiron from a no-holds-barred battlefield to the highly-technical chess match it is today. With his trademark fedora and stoic facade, he was a man of faith and few words, for 29 years guiding “America’s Team” from laughingstock to well-oiled machine, with an unprecedented twenty consecutive winning seasons and two Super Bowl titles. Now, more than a decade after Landry’s death, acclaimed biographer Mark Ribowsky takes a fresh look at this misunderstood legend, telling us as much about our country’s obsession with football as about Landry himself, the likes of whom we’ll never see again.

©2014 Mark Ribowsky (P)2014 Recorded Books

Reseñas de la Crítica

“An eloquent, honest tribute to a sports genius.” ( Publishers Weekly, Best 100 Books of 2013)

America's Coach

amazing book. I have always loved the Cowboys but never really knew the history of Landrey as I was to young to know. Great book a much for all Cowboy fans

Cowboys fan of over 50 years!

Wow,I got to relive great wins, heartbreaking losses, inside look at the coach I loved!

Very detailed account of Tom Landry’s Cowboys

Great insight into Tom Landry’s background and early days of the NFL. A bit too much detail through each of his 29 seasons as the Dallas head coach.

Fine overview of TL

This was fine as far as bios go. I felt like it barely scratched the surface of who he was. Perhaps more precisely, no clear picture ever developed of Tom in this book. It was a very long collection of stories and opinions of Tom's life. So, again, it was a very standard bio (albeit a very thoroughly researched bio) with nothing too outstanding to set it apart; no conclusions or overarching storyline or unique angles...just a nice in memorium of Tom's life.

Great research!

An excellent story, with a great narrator... It gave me an important remindment of cowboy history!Dont miss it!