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It is still unbelievable. The Boys of Winter is an evocative account of the improbable American adventure in Lake Placid, New York. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews, Wayne Coffey explores the untold stories of the U.S. upstarts, their Soviet opponents, and the forces that brought them together.
Coffey casts a fresh eye on this seminal sports event in The Boys of Winter, crafting an intimate look at the team and giving readers an ice-level view of the boys who captivated a country. He details the unusual chemistry of the Americans—formulated by a fiercely determined Brooks—and he seamlessly weaves portraits of the players with the fluid, fast-paced action of the 1980 game itself.
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- Wayne Coffey
The Boys of Winter is the definitive book on a defining moment in American culture.” —Jay Atkinson, author of Ice Time “Wayne Coffey re-creates the excitement of the unlikely run the U.S. men's hockey team made through the 1980 Olympics . . . an adventure that seems even more unlikely now than it felt twenty-five years ago.”
Once upon a time, they taught us to believe. They were the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, a blue-collar bunch led by an unconventional coach, and they engineered perhaps the greatest sports moment of
The Boys of Winter is an evocative account of the improbable American adventure in Lake Placid, New York. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews, Wayne Coffey explores the untold stories of the U.S. upstarts, their Soviet opponents, and the forces that brought them together.
THE BOYS OF WINTER: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team. Wayne Coffey, . . Crown, $23.95 (288pp) ISBN 978-1-4000-4765-9. In this well-written and thoroughly ...
The Boys of Winter is the definitive book on a defining moment in American culture.” —Jay Atkinson, author of Ice Time “Wayne Coffey re-creates the excitement of the unlikely run the U.S. men’s hockey team made through the 1980 Olympics . . . an adventure that seems even more unlikely now than it felt twenty-five years ago.” —Bill Littlefield, host of NPR’s Only a Game and author ...
- Wayne Coffey
