Seth Wickersham American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback

About the author:

Seth Wickersham is a senior writer at ESPN and the New York Times bestselling author of It’s Better to Be Feared: The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness. Focusing primarily on long-form enterprise and investigative work on the National Football League, Wickersham has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting, and his stories have been anthologized in The Best American Magazine Writing, The Best American Sports Writing, and Next Wave: America’s New Generation of Great Literary Journalists, among others. He lives in Connecticut with his family.

About the book:

The quarterback is the American equivalent of royalty: long glamorized, mythologized, and worshipped. As an inside look into a uniquely American job and a uniquely American obsession with football, American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback is a must-read for sports fans and anyone who wants to understand what the price of ambition tells us about the quest for achievement and status.

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