Lars Anderson| BRADY w/ Greg Auman
About this Event
BRADY An American Story and the Price of Greatness
by Lars Anderson
About the book:
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.
Lars Anderson New York Times bestselling author and former Sports Illustrated journalist, 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.
Greg Auman is FOX Sports’ NFL reporter, covering the Buccaneers, Falcons, Panthers and Saints. He is in his 10th season covering the Bucs and the NFL full-time, having spent time at the Tampa Bay Times and The Athletic. Greg was born in Philadelphia, went to high school in Raleigh, N.C., attended the University of Florida and has lived in the Tampa area since 1999. He and his wife Nicole have been married for 24 years and have three great kids — Riley, Hailey and Wesley — as well as a Maltese named Piper.
The book:
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?
Neither Brady nor his familiy participated in this book, which makes it more impartial.
"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 master work 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, 11-time Emmy Award winner and six-time New York Times bestselling author, including number one 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
"This book is what happens when one of the greatest sports writers of our time steps up to chronicle one of the icons in American sports. Lars Anderson could write about a pee-wee football game and make it a beautiful read; imagine what happens when he turns his talents to Tom Brady. To say this is a rich, compelling read doesn't do it justice. For those of us who have always wanted more of the story behind THE quarterback, this is it."
-Rick Bragg, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
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🕑: 04:15 PM
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🕑: 05:30 PM
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