Namath : a biography /

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Author / Creator:Kriegel, Mark.
Imprint:New York : Viking, 2004.
Description:xiii, 512 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Namath, Joe Willie, -- 1943-
Namath, Joe Willie, -- 1943-
Football players -- United States -- Biography.
Football players.
United States.
Biography.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5535002
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ISBN:0670033294 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 449-498) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • 9. Higher Education
  • 10. The Tower
  • 11. Colored Water
  • 12. Stud
  • 13. Of Southern Comforts and the Schoolhouse Door
  • 14. Jimmy
  • 15. Sippin'
  • 16. Doylestown Redux
  • 17. Harry Wismer's Titans of New York
  • 18. Sonny, as in Money
  • 1. A Distant Fabled Land
  • 19. Happy New Year
  • 20. Four Hundred Grand
  • 21. Now Appearing on Broadway: Mistress Meniscus
  • 22. Wampum
  • 23. Salted Apples
  • 24. No Guarantees
  • 25. Booze and Broads
  • 26. Liar's Poker
  • 27. The Star System
  • 28. The Beauty of Joe
  • 2. The Lower End
  • 29. Bosses
  • 30. Student of the Game
  • 31. Fu Manchu
  • 32. Disheveled but Happy
  • 33. The Points
  • 34. Super
  • 35. America's Hero
  • 36. The Undesirables
  • 37. The Joe Namath Show
  • 38. Bigger Than the Game
  • 3. Play Ball
  • 39. The Agony of Defeat
  • 40. The Score
  • 41. Nobody's Perfect
  • 42. Don't Trust Anyone Over Thirty
  • 43. High Concept
  • 44. Magic Six
  • 45. Garden City Joe
  • 46. Hollywood Ending
  • 47. That's Entertainment
  • 48. Sound of the Soul
  • 4. Boy at the Top of the Stairs
  • 49. Deborah
  • 50. Old Joe
  • 51. Fiji
  • 52. Tatiana
  • 53. A Vinculo Matrimonii
  • 54. Classic Sports
  • Acknowledgments
  • Source Notes
  • 5. Pint-Sized Quarterback
  • 6. Magic
  • 7. Joey U
  • 8. Small-Town Hero