The Titan of Tuscaloosa: The Tie Games and Career of Paul Bear Bryant

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Summary: Learn from my MISTAKE...
Review: ...and save your money by not buying this book! Let me first say that I have purchased well over 100 books in the past two or three years from Amazon.com, and spent more money than I care to add up, and I have never written one review nor have I returned even one book...until now. It's hard to even know where to begin, so I'll just start before the beginning, on the Dedication page. It is not for whom the dedication was written (the author's father), but the juvenile,amateurish way in which it was written, topped off with poor grammar and punctuation. On to the Introduction I went, however, giving the author the benefit of the doubt. As I began reading, I had the strange feeling I had read some of these same words before in another book about Coach Bryant. Now I'm not talking about well-known stories which can be found in any biographical sketch of the legendary coach; I'm talking about the exact same words! Lo and behold, I pulled from my bookshelf a book written by Mickey Herskowitz 17 YEARS EARLIER and read verbatim the exact same passages now plagiarized in this book. The same introduction referred to a tie game the Tide had with Southern Miss in 1982. I immediately knew this was wrong because I was at that game in 1982 when Southern Miss handed 'Bama its first loss in Tuscaloosa in about 19 years. The tie came the year before. Picky? Yes, if this kind of mistake takes place impromptu over water cooler chat, and not from the author of a book. Mind you, I'm still in the introduction, which spans a whole one and a half pages, start to finish. Let's just say it (1982) was a typo. You'll find plenty of those in this book. How does a manuscript such as this even get published, I wonder? I'm certainly no linguist or even a teacher--although the author ironically IS a teacher and has been for over 20 years--but I can't read one full page without having to go back and figure out what this guy is trying to write. To sum it up, this book is chock full of poor grammar, typographical errors, and plagiarized material. (You'll know the

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Summary: a really good book
Review: There are a lot of unknown facts about the Bear here. I was surprised. I recommend it for the die-hard Bama fan, along with "A Tailgater's Guide To SEC Football" by Chris Warner.
Both are great for SEC fans and fans of "The Bear".

Rating:
Summary: a really good book
Review: There are a lot of unknown facts about the Bear here. I was surprised. I recommend it for the die-hard Bama fan, along with "A Tailgater's Guide To SEC Football" by Chris Warner.
Both are great for SEC fans and fans of "The Bear".