The Last Cowboy: A Life of Tom Landry

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As the coach during professional football's most storied era, Tom Landrytransformed the gridiron from a no-holds-barred battlefield to the highly-technicalchess match it is today. With his trademark fedora and stoicfacade, he was a man of faith and few words, for twenty-nine years guiding "America'sTeam" from laughingstock to well-oiled machine, with an unprecedented twentyconsecutive winning seasons and two Super Bowl titles. Now, more than a decadeafter Landry's death, acclaimed biographer Mark Ribowsky takes a fresh look at thismisunderstood legend, telling us as much about our country's obsession with footballas about Landry himself, the likes of whom we'll never see again.