{"product_id":"their-lifes-work-the-brotherhood-of-the-1970s-pittsburgh-steelers-9781451691634","title":"Their Life's Work: The Brotherhood of the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"The definitive book of the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers\" (Scott Brown, ESPN), \u003ci\u003eTheir Life's Work \u003c\/i\u003eis a triumphant yet intimate literary sports book that--through exquisite reportage, love, and honesty--tells the full story of the best team to ever play the game.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Pittsburgh Steelers of the 1970s won an unprecedented and unmatched four Super Bowls in six years. A dozen of those Steelers players, coaches, and executives have been inducted into the Hall of Fame, and three decades later their names echo in popular memory: \"Mean\" Joe Greene, Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, Mike Webster, Jack Lambert, Lynn Swann, and John Stallworth. In ways exhilarating and heartbreaking, they define not only the brotherhood of sports but those elements of the game that engage tens of millions of Americans: its artistry and its brutality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on hundreds of interviews, \u003ci\u003eTheir Life's Work\u003c\/i\u003e is a richly textured story of a team and a sport, what the game gave these men, and what the game took. It gave fame, wealth, and, above all, a brotherhood of players, twelve of whom died before turning sixty. To a man, they said they'd do it again, all of it. They bared the soul of the game to Gary Pomerantz, and he captured it wondrously. \"Here is a book as hard-hitting and powerful as the 'Steel Curtain' dynasty that Pomerantz depicts so deftly. It's the NFL's version of \u003ci\u003eThe Boys of Summer\u003c\/i\u003e, with equal parts triumph and melancholy. Pomerantz's writing is strong, straightforward, funny, sentimental, and blunt. It's as working class and gritty as the men he writes about\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Tampa Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, Top 10 Sports Books of the Year).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePomerantz, Gary M.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Gary M. Pomerantz\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis a nonfiction author and journalist and has served the past seven years as a visiting lecturer in the Department of Communication at Stanford University. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e. Pomerantz has written four books, including \u003ci\u003eTheir Life's Work\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of the Year, \u003ci\u003eWhere Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50504547467538,"sku":"9781451691634","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ccb4b640-f963-48e7-948d-37864cc9db78.jpg?v=1730821960","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/their-lifes-work-the-brotherhood-of-the-1970s-pittsburgh-steelers-9781451691634","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}