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Turning of the Tide: How One Game Changed the South Kindle Edition

by Don Yaeger (Author), Sam Cunningham (Author), John Papadakis (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
New York Times bestselling author Yaeger tells the electrifying story of the game that broke down the last racial division in college football.
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    273 pages
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    Center Street
  4. Publication date
    December 2, 2008
  5. File size
    2.2 MB
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Don Yaeger lives in Tallahassee, Florida.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001MSMVF6
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Center Street (December 2, 2008)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 2, 2008
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2.2 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 273 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings

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Don Yaeger

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Don Yaeger is an award-winning keynote speaker, 11-time New York Times best-selling author, executive coach, and team culture expert.

For the last 30+ years, including his time as Associate Editor of Sports Illustrated magazine, Don has had a front row seat to study the greatest champions of all time.

Don teaches the lessons he's learned from these great champions and team builders to organizations all over the world with live and virtual professional development programs.

To learn more about these programs, and how Don can motivate your team to perform like champions, please visit Don's website at donyaeger.com

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Don Yaeger lives in Tallahassee, FL with his wife Jeanette and their two children Will and Maddie.

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"Well written book on a great subject. We learn from history and this book takes us beyond football...." Read more

"...That's one of the best, if not the #1 VERY best and favorite books I've read in my life!..." Read more

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"...The book covered an amazing amount of stories about how sports and athletes can make a difference. Great reading...." Read more

"...Don Yeager (author) has written a LOT of very good/great ALabama stories, and SEC stories, like Blind Side backstory of Mike Oher's REAL story...." Read more

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  • W. M. Williams
    5.0 out of 5 stars Turning of the Tide: How One Game Changed the South.
    Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2006
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    Well written book on a great subject. We learn from history and this book takes us beyond football. Bear Bryant and John McKay were not only oustanding coaches but realized they have a moral obligation to help others at the same time helping themselves. I have read books on both men and of course they weren't perfect but they did grab the reins to make a difference. None of us is perect but some times we can make a difference.

    It was important that it was Sam Cunningham who made it happen.

    He is a leader who understands what is important. He and the others help make life better for all of us.

    I will share this book with my grandsons so they can understand that it is important to bring others with you on your advantures to success.

    The book covered an amazing amount of stories about how sports and athletes can make a difference. Great reading.

    I have heard many myths about the game and they were interesting but now an important story has been told by some of those who lives it.
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  • thillskier
    5.0 out of 5 stars unreal!
    Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2014
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    This is one of my FAVORITE Bama Football books! I think I have read any and all written in the time frame even CLOSE to my lifetime, as well as my Grandfathers collection of Bama Books and Dad's. We are a 5th generation Bama Graduate family, and I was the first to letter and be a scholar shipped athlete in our family:). Don Yeager (author) has written a LOT of very good/great ALabama stories, and SEC stories, like Blind Side backstory of Mike Oher's REAL story. That's one of the best, if not the #1 VERY best and favorite books I've read in my life!

    It clarifies any conflicts and inconsistancies that came up in Blind Side vs the Tuohy's book/story.
    Michaels book (by him and Yeager)s a MUST READ, IMHO, and should be a textbook for all teens and kids of any background. Truly inspiring!
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  • Robert M. Sherwood
    4.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous for a select audience
    Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2007
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    This is a 'must-read' for anyone with an interest in big-time college football and race relations in the US.

    To paraphrase someone in the book, Sam "Bam" Cunningham did more in one football game to accelerate integration in Alabama and the South than the late Rev. King, Jr. did in 25 years.

    Hyperbole perhaps but a point worth making.

    The only down side to the book is that it isn't really a book.

    The author repeated and re-repeated incidents, one surmises, to make it book-length.

    That aside, it's a wonderful read.
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  • DgSchd
    5.0 out of 5 stars The real deal.
    Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2020
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    Great book. Tells it like it is. A true story which should to be told.
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  • PiperV
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great read - very enlightening
    Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2014
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    A MUST READ for all BAMA and USC Trojans fans. Tells the story of what it took to bring the premier team in the SEC into the 20th Centrury!
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  • John M.
    5.0 out of 5 stars More important than most people know
    Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2013
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    One of the most important events in the civil rights struggle struggle that most people just do not know about. Two great college football coaches did more to promote integration than Congress ever did.
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  • Amazon Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Delivery of product in a timely fashion.
    Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2020
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    I did not have anything that I disliked.
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  • Randy6052
    5.0 out of 5 stars Not just for USC fans
    Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2014
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    A must read if you are a USC fan, but all sports fans will enjoy...and students of the civil rights movement.
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