The Blind Side

Evolution of a Game

By: Michael Lewis

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Paperback | 8 January 2010 | Edition Number 1

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352 Pages

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14+

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9+

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20.5 x 16 x 3

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It's not a jock book. It's not a sociology book. It's a storybook about modern society, ancient virtues, and the power of love, money and talent to do a little good." -- Jay Hancock, Baltimore Sun One day Michael Oher will be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League. When we first meet him, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or how to read or write. He takes up football, and school, after a rich, white, evangelical family plucks him from the streets. Then two great forces alter Oher: the family's love and the evolution of professional football itself into a game in which the quarterback must be protected at any cost. Our protagonist becomes the priceless package of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback's greatest vulnerability: his blind side. This paperback edition contains a brand-new 2007 afterword.

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"It's not a jock book. It's not a sociology book. It's a storybook about modern society, ancient virtues, and the power of love, money and talent to do a little good." -- Jay Hancock - Baltimore Sun "The Blind Side is as insightful and moving a meditation on class inequality in America as I have ever read-although to put it that way, I realize, makes it sound deadly dull. It isn't." -- Malcolm Gladwell "Lewis's overview of the evolution of NFL strategy... is not only sound but shrewder than that of many so-called football insiders who can't see the forest for the trees." -- Allen Barra - Washington Post "[Lewis] is advancing a new genre of journalism." -- George F. Will - New York Times Book Review "The Blind Side works on three levels. First as a shrewd analysis of the NFL; second, as an expose of the insanity of big-time college football recruiting; and, third, as a moving portrait of the positive effect that love, family, and education can have in reversing the path of a life that was destined to be lived unhappily and, most likely, end badly." -- Wes Lukowsky - Booklist "Combining a tour de force of sports analysis with a piquant ethnography of the South's pigskin mania, Lewis probes the fascinating question of whether football is a matter of brute force or subtle intellect." -- Publishers Weekly

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Non-Fiction Sports & Recreation Ball Games American Football Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Sociology & Sport & Leisure Biographies & True Stories Biographies Sport Biographies Family & Health Relationships & Families: Advice & Issues

Self-Help, Personal Development & Practical Advice Advice on Careers & Achieving Success History Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History

Back Story	p. 15
The Market for Football Players	p. 29
Crossing the Line	p. 45
The Blank Slate	p. 75
Death of a Lineman	p. 103
Inventing Michael	p. 131
The Pasta Coach	p. 167
Character Courses	p. 197
Birth of a Star	p. 231
The Egg Bowl	p. 263
Freak of Nurture	p. 293
And Moses Stuttered	p. 313
Afterword to the Paperback Edition	p. 331
Author's Note	p. 335
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