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Title: A Civil War: Army Vs. Navy : A Year Inside College Football's Purest Rivalry by John Feinstein ISBN: 0-316-27736-3 Publisher: Little Brown and Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 (37 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Duty... Honor... Country... Sport... IN THAT ORDER
Comment: If you are looking for a story of selfish, maladjusted, spoiled, law-bending athletes... this isn't it. No Lawrence Philips or Peter Warwicks here. No chest-thumping, trash-talking, pampered delinquents. No BCS hype, big-time budgets, or recruiting violations. Feinstein reveals dedicated young men -- many of whom are overachievers -- who accept sport in its broader context. While not perfect, we read the story of young men dedicated to an end that is greater than the sum of its parts. I will never watch Army, Navy (and, yes, Air Force) play again without honoring in my thoughts what these young men give day in and day out. Every high school and college athlete should read this book. Beyond football's "purest rivalry," Army-Navy is football (sport) like it ought to be.
Rating: 5
Summary: AN OUTSTANDING FOOTBALL BOOK
Comment: John Feinstein's chronicle of the 1995 college football season for the teams of the US Army and Navy Academies offers an arresting and unmissable insight into America's most unique and historic inter-school rivalry. The insular military subculture of the academies at West Point and Annapolis amplifies grid-iron's oblique detachment from the mainstream social model, with the result that the annual Army-Navy game becomes an almost religious experience in its intensity and significance. Unlike other heated college rivalries, which are based on mutual enmity, Army-Navy stems instead from mutual understanding: the players involved are brothers-in-arms in their dedication both to the nation's defence and to the "duty, honor and victory" of representing their school on the football field. For both teams as well, but especially for the Senior students whose last game ever is the Army-Navy clash, the passage of the season marks one more step towards the end of their football careers and the start of their military ones. This sense of inevitability and tragic predestination dominates Feinstein's nerve-jangling account of the final game. If the players and coaches of both teams lapse one time too many into clichéd rhetoric, then it is only because each and every game represents so much for them emotionally. At the same time, the fast-paced and vivid style with which Feinstein recalls the season captures perfectly the importance of the rivalry and football in general to the young men who play the game. Overall, A Civil War is an outstanding book from a first-rate sports writer that provides a valuable and inspiring perspective upon the athletic phenomenon of self-expression through competition.
Rating: 5
Summary: A fun journey
Comment: I really enjoyed reading this book. It was a magnificant journey through the 1995 season with 2 of the most prestigious football programs in the country. We get a first hand view of what it is like to go to a military school first of all, but to also play football while at that military school. We also get a glimpse of what it was like when the 2 programs were in their hayday and people actually wanted to play at these schools. There was once a time where they dominated and all of the great players went to the military academies. Today, with high salaries and mandatory service, it is unlikely for an all american to attend one of these schools. The cadets know that the end of their football career comes with the end of their college schooling, and that makes the losses hurt that much more. Follow the players through their push through the season against some of the nation's powerhouses. You won't be sorry.
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Title: The Last Amateurs : Playing for Glory and Honor in Division I College Basketball by John Feinstein ISBN: 0316278424 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A March to Madness : A View from the Floor in the Atlantic Coast Conference by John Feinstein ISBN: 0316277126 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 15 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A Good Walk Spoiled : Days and Nights on the PGA Tour by John Feinstein ISBN: 0316277371 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Majors-In Pursuit of Golf's Holy Grail by John Feinstein ISBN: 0316277959 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever by John Feinstein ISBN: 0316735639 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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