{"product_id":"moving-the-chains-charles-p-pierce-9780374214449","title":"Moving the Chains: Tom Brady and the Pursuit of Everything","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMoving the Chains\u003c\/i\u003e is a study of so much that is too often lost in victory: grace and character and humility. This is a magnificent biography, a meticulous and illuminating tale for those of us who still want to believe in champions. Put simply, Charles Pierce on Tom Brady is America's best sportswriter writing on one of America's best champions.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Adrian Wojnarowski\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Tom Brady entered the 2005 NFL season as lead quarterback for the New England Patriots, the defending Super Bowl champions, he was hailed as the best to ever play the position. And with good reason: he was the youngest quarterback to ever win a Super Bowl; the only quarterback in NFL history to win three Super Bowls before turning twenty-eight; the fourth player in history to win multiple Super Bowl MVP awards. He started the season with a 57-14 record, the best of any NFL quarterback since 1966. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAward-winning sports journalist Charles P. Pierce's \u003ci\u003eMoving the Chains \u003c\/i\u003eexplains how Brady reached the top of his profession and how he stays there. It is a study in highly honed skills, discipline, and making the most of good fortune, and is shot through with ironies--a sixth-round draft pick turned superstar leading a football dynasty that was once so bedraggled it had to play a home game in Birmingham, Alabama, because no stadium around Boston would have it. It is also about an ordinary man and an ordinary team becoming extraordinary. Pierce interviewed Brady's friends, family, coaches, and teammates. He interviewed Brady (notably for \u003ci\u003eSports Illustrated\u003c\/i\u003e's 2005 Sportsman of the Year cover article). And then he got the one thing he needed to truly take Brady's measure: 2005 turned out to be the toughest Patriots season in five years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles P. Pierce\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374214441\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374214449\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/16\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.22h x 5.82w x 0.81d","brand":"Charles P. Pierce","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43983575875839,"sku":"9780374214449","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8c613b09-8ff7-40c5-8355-287a86de0cac.jpg?v=1683267466","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/moving-the-chains-charles-p-pierce-9780374214449","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}