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5 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 Good Oral Biography Jul 17, 2006
By Howard Wexler
I am impressed and was entertained and informed.
First off, the book has a lot of different voices through the entire book, especially in the early years of the Cowboys. It has good stories, especially where the real story and the published one are different.
And while the self-serving antics of Hollywood Henderson get boring, it is a relatively minor issue.
Kudos to the author for getting a lot out of Duane Thomas and other tough interviews.
The portraits of people like Tom Landry and Don Meredith are nuanced and very human.
Only reason it does not get 5 stars is because it ends too early, at the beginning of the Jerry Jones era. Also, a picture of Lance Rentzel is labeled as Lance Alworth, there is reference to Sil Gillman as being an assistant coach of the team and other typos.
Golenbock does a decent job in this one, versus some of his other works which get rather lazy Nov 30, 2011
By Canuck in WA
Purchased this book at St. Vincent de Paul for $4.00, and will say that it is well worth the price as far as what I paid for it. Goes into a year-by-year description of the Cowboys prior to their entrance into the NFL, and the years afterwards. Do not look for a real in depth, statistical breakdown of individual games or even seasons; much of a particular season is glossed over in generalities. Golenbock's style focuses on gathering various insights from players that experienced the year in question, and get their overall opinion/take on what the team went through (very similar to that of his book "Amazing" which detailed the history of the New York Mets, but much more dynamic writing than that one). I found the interviews with Frank Clarke and Pete Gent especially interesting as far as factors that affected the overall "chemistry" and "cohesiveness" of the team in the formative years. And reading what kind of beating that Don Meredith took week in and week out, and how to a man, each of the members of the team admired the level of his overall courage, certainly gave me a new perspective on Meredith as a whole vs. that of what we were used to seeing in the early 70's on "Monday Night Football" up in the booth.
Will leave the overall judgement and analysis of Tom Landry to those who read this book so they can form their own opinion. Nevertheless, it is both candid and revealing at times how some of the players truly loathe Coach Landry. And whether justified or not, it is a very good insight as to how opinions can vary to such a wide degree when talking about the same individual.
If you are a football fan in general (especially one who grew up following the game in the 60's) and can get this book at a relatively reasonable price, I would recommend buying it because it is very captivating at times.
1 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Not sure what to say. Jan 04, 2008
By John W. Jackson
"Sports Reader"
Having grown up a Cowboys fan from 0-11-1 to Jerry Jones the book was an interesting read. After finishing it, however, I kept asking the question what point was Golenboch trying to make. This book makes "North Dallas Forty" come across as a joyous New Year's Eve party. The author seems to convey having played for the Cowboys as a completely joyless adventure.
I've read just about every book on the Cowboys of that era and while I was impressed with the research it was far, far too negative for my taste - especially about Landry and Schramm.
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