About the book
Michael Lewis tells two stories. One is the change in football strategy over three decades, driven by Bill Walsh's West Coast offense and by linebacker Lawrence Taylor joining the New York Giants in 1981, which made the left tackle who guards a right-handed quarterback's blind side a prized player whose pay rose fastest under free agency. The other follows Michael Oher, one of thirteen children of a mother addicted to crack, who had never touched a football. He attends Briarcrest Christian School, is taken in by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, a rich Evangelical family, and becomes a left tackle at Ole Miss and a highly coveted college prospect.
Malcolm Gladwell called it Michael Lewis's best book, saying that beneath the football it is a story about love and redemption.
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Recommended by Scott Keyes (Co-Founder/Scott's Cheap Flights)
Source: Interview with Scott Keyes
Malcolm Gladwell (Writer & Journalist)
Lewis is the finest storyteller of our generation, and this is his best book. Supposedly about football (the title refers to the side of the field a quarterback is blind to), it’s actually an extraordinary story about love and redemption.
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