Release Date:- 2020-09-01
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Now a 10-part docuseries on Apple TV+
From the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Tiger Woods comes the definitive inside story of the New England Patriotsāthe greatest sports dynasty of the 21st century.
Itās easy to forget that the New England Patriots were once the laughingstock of the NFL, a nearly bankrupt team that had never won a championship and was on the brink of moving to St. Louis. Everything changed in 1994, when Robert Kraft acquired the franchise and soon brought on board head coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady. Since then, the Patriots have become a juggernaut, making ten trips to the Super Bowl, winning six of them, and emerging as one of the most valuable sports franchises in the world.
How was the Patriots dynasty built? And how did it last for two decades? In The Dynasty, acclaimed journalist Jeff Benedict provides richly reported answers in a sweeping account based on exclusive interviews with more than two hundred insidersāincluding team executives, coaches, players, playersā wives, team doctors, lawyers, and moreāas well as never-before-seen recordings, documents, and electronic communications.
Through his exhaustive research, Benedict uncovers surprising new details about the inner workings of a team notorious for its secrecy. He puts us in the room as Robert Kraft outmaneuvers a legion of lawyers and investors to buy the team. We listen in on the phone call when the greatest trade ever madeāBill Belichick for a first-round draft choiceāis negotiated. And we look over the shoulder of forty-year-old Tom Brady as a surgeon operates on his throwing hand on the eve of the AFC Championship Game in 2018.
But the portrait that emerges in The Dynasty is more rewarding than new details alone. By tracing the teamās epic run through the perspectives of Kraft, Belichick, and Bradyāeach of whom was interviewed for the bookāthe author provides a wealth of new insight into the complex human beings most responsible for the Patriotsā success.
The result is an intimate portrait that captures the human drama of the dynastyās three key characters while also revealing the secrets behind their success. āThe Dynasty isā¦[a] masterpieceā¦Itās a relationship book, itās a football book, itās a business bookā¦youāll just eat up these storiesā (Colin Cowherd).