COACH: THE LIFE OF PAUL BEAR BRYANT""

Just five weeks after coaching his final football game for the University of Alabama, Paul "Bear" Bryant passed away, leaving behind a void that has yet to be filled. It's been thirteen years since his death, yet the imposing legend of the Bear still casts a shadow over the state of Alabama and the entire college football world. For twenty-five years as the head coach of the Crimson Tide, and thirteen years before that at Maryland, Kentucky, and Texas A&M, Bear Bryant's outsized personality and deep charisma made him the dominant figure in the world of college football, and turned boys with ordinary talent but extraordinary heart into winners on the gridiron and off. In Coach, Keith Dunnavant gives us the definitive portrait of this rough-hewn man with an extraordinary gift for leadership. Coach is not only about the man and his tremendous ability to succeed, it's also about the South and the legacy Coach Bryant left behind. In a divisive era, Bryant gave Alabamians something to be proud of. In all times, he was simply the greatest college football coach of them all.

KEITH DUNNAVANT, a native of Athens, Alabama, is the founder of four magazines and the author of three books. He has also been an award-winning writer and editor for the National Sports Daily, the Los Angeles Times, Sport magazine, Atlanta, BusinessWeek, Mediaweek, and the Birmingham Post-Herald. Since the original publication of this definitive biography, Dunnavant has been utilized as a creative consultant and expert commentator on Bryant documentaries produced by ESPN and CBS Sports.