Lewis - The Blind Side

Yet another triumph[ The Blind Side ] is about much more than college football recruitmentit is actually about the American dream itself.

A. G. Gancarski, Washington Times

Lewis has such a gift for storytellinghe writes as lucidly for sports fans as for those who read him for other reasons.

Janet Maslin, New York Times

Grabs hold of you.

Allen Barra, Washington Post

[Lewis] is advancing a new genre of journalism.

George F. Will, New York Times Book Review

Lewis has perfected the art of analyzing interesting changes inside American institutionsthe bond market, Major League Baseballand then decorating the scene with personalities behind the statistics.

Jay Hancock, Baltimore Sun

No reader with even a passing interest in the current state of our games should fail to read it.

Bill Littlefield, Boston Globe

In The Blind Side , Michael Lewis provides a compelling bookexplaining how this subtle and brutal game has changed as the balance of power has shifted between talented athletes and clever, devoted coaches.

The Economist

Lewis knows how to put the reader on the field. The Blind Side displays all of Lewis particular writing strengths: the ability to drive a story forward, the eye for both the big picture and telling detail, shrewd wit, and an unerring instinct for discerning social complexity. Youll be tempted to stand up and cheer as you read.

Susan Larson, Times-Picayune , New Orleans

Lewis is a terrific reporter and a gifted prose stylist. He absorbs the vibrations of the world he immerses himself in without getting carried away. So as the book progresses, he never loses track of Michael Oher.

John Freeman, Houston Chronicle

Entertaining and illuminatingabout racial division, sporting tactics and financial arbitrage.

John Gapper, Financial Times

Combining a tour de force of sports analysis with a piquant ethnography of the Souths pigskin mania, Lewis probes the fascinating question of whether football is a matter of brute force or subtle intellect.

Publishers Weekly , starred review

Lewis delivers a thunderous hit.

Bryan French, Fort Worth Star-Telegram

As he has done before, Lewis brilliantly deconstructs a culture.

Sherryl Connelly, New York Daily News

A penetrating talean engrossing, if anguished, story of serendipity and salvation.

Mark Hyman, BusinessWeek

Grippingly told.

Library Journal , starred review

[Lewis has] a gift for narrative pace, for sly wit, for the telling detail, for the clarity and verve of his sentences.

George W. Hunt, America magazine

[ The Blind Side ] works on three levels. First as a shrewd analysis of the NFL; second, as an expos of the insanity of big-time college football recruiting; and, third, as a moving portrait of the positive effect that love, family, and education can have in reversing the path of a life that was destined to be lived unhappily and, most likely, end badly.

Wes Lukowsky, Booklist , starred review

A book about idiosyncratic idealismbut with a hopeful ending.

Jacob Weisberg, Slate

Its the sort of book that one might understandably categorize as just another (true) story about footballbut Lewis goes much deeper.

Brian Cook, Sky magazine

In my recent reading of Michael Lewiss outstanding The Blind Side , I cried any number of times, such was the powerful effect of that story.

Robert Birnbaum, The Morning News

[A] superbly written and exhaustively interviewed tale.

Steven Goode, Vindicator

As good a portrait of contemporary American society [] as anything that Tom Wolfe produced in his prime.

Brian Zabcik, Corporate Counsel

A gripping tour through the world of college recruiting, professional football strategy, and the volatile mix of faith and sports.

Christianity Today

An extraordinary and moving story of a young man who will one day be among the most highly paid athletes in the NFL.

The Octavian

A look at the strategy, the underpinnings, the personalities of modern football, told personally and clearly in the form of one young player.

Blue Ridge Business Journal

Lewis effortlessly moves back and forth between subtle football tactics and major social issues.

John Lawson III, Tampa Tribune

A brilliant investigation of what determines success in American football and, separately, in American society.

Mike Steib, Void magazine