Brady
An American Story and the Price of Greatness
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Brady
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Narrated by:
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Max Meyers
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By:
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Lars Anderson
Based on years of in-depth reporting and sources from every corner of his life, Brady is the definitive biography of the life, career, and retirement of one of football’s most legendary figures, Tom Brady.
New York Times bestselling author and former Sports Illustrated journalist Lars Anderson plunges into Tom Brady’s childhood to discover the origins of what Brady later described as his “sickness”: his category-five obsession with the game. The obsession dictated every choice Brady made, from what foods he ate to how he managed his day-to-day schedule to how he viewed his role as father to his three children and husband to supermodel Gisele Bündchen.
From more than 350 original interviews with people who know the quarterback on and off the field, Anderson paints a detailed psychological portrait of Tom Brady, a self-described loner whose life is defined by discipline, resilience, a fascination with preparation, an intolerance for wasted time, and a relentless pursuit of the extraordinary. What he finds is a man riddled with contradiction, defined by both a prolific career of unmatched success on the field and the agonizing cost of greatness in his personal life.
Brady is a comprehensive view of the life of the most accomplished player in the history of America’s game. Anderson digs deep behind the headlines to provide a richly detailed answer to one of the most vexing questions in sports: Who, really, is Tom Brady?
Critic Reviews
"As a top sideline reporter for CBS Sports, I got to know Tom Brady during the first half of the Patriots’ record six Super Bowl wins, but never this Brady as painted in a masterwork of page-turning literary art. Meticulously reported and packed with cinematic scenes . . . Lars not only brings an obsessive pursuit of perfection to life but, in the most humane of ways, the personal cost of that journey. Page after page you are with Tom . . . walking in the West Village to a blind date with his future wife in an astonishing opening chapter . . . choosing football over family down in Tampa. Like the QB himself, Brady is destined to join the ranks of the all-time greats."
—Armen Keteyian, eleven-time Emmy Award winner and six-time New York Times bestselling author, including #1 bestseller Tiger Woods
Perhaps the most improbable sports story of our time -- the rise and reign of Tom Brady -- belonged in the hands of Lars Anderson, one of the very best sportswriters and authors of his generation. Through a poet's touch and a dogged reporter's nose for the ball, Anderson brilliantly details Brady's transformation from a seventh-string college quarterback to a seven-time Super Bowl champ. If Brady wasn't already on the all-time Mount Rushmore of American sports titans, this book puts him there. A must read for anyone who cares about the pursuit of greatness and the human insecurities conquered along the way.
—Ian O'Connor, New York Times bestselling author of Belichick