RaveThe Wall Street JournalMr. Anderson supplies stories in spades. He gives the reader something interesting on every page and avoids the sports biographer’s trap of tediously reciting season after season. Instead the author skillfully identifies pivotal moments in Mr. Brady’s life and explores how each particular plot twist reveals something about the man ... The author is a first-rate storyteller, and here he delivers something we don’t get much of these days: fun—a modern Horatio Alger story unattached to the politics of outrage. If there’s a flaw, Mr. Anderson occasionally indulges in excessive adjectives and metaphors, but that takes nothing away from his accomplishment.
