![]() ![]() First as a shrewd analysis of the NFL second, as an exposé 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. 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. ![]() In The Blind Side, Lewis shows us a largely unanalyzed but inexorable trend in football working its way down from the pros to the high school game, where it collides with the life of a single young man to produce a narrative of great and surprising power. Malcolm Gladwell, author of Talking to Strangers and The Tipping Point The second force is the evolution of professional football itself. 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’s a storybook about modern society, ancient virtues, and the power of love, money and talent to do a little good. ![]()
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