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14 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller List
A "Best Book of the Year" by the Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor and Rocky Mountain News
"Superb...a fascinating look inside the managing of a professional baseball team." --John Grisham, The New York Times Book Review
"A first-rate account of a battle of titans...A real treat for scholarly baseball fans, and a better management book than most on the business shelves."--Kirkus Review, Starred Review
"The best baseball book I've read in a decade."--Rocky Mountain News
"More than a splendid baseball book, it's a revealing, inspiring portrait of leadership under pressure." --Howard Schultz, Chairman, Starbucks Coffee Company
"A can't-miss collaboration...a richly detailed examination of the hidden game of baseball and the manager's role in trying to solve its endless riddles--Chicago Tribune
"Three Nights in August will be on every true fan's shelf."--San Diego Union Tribune
"The Cubs against the Cardinals in the heat of August --this is baseball at its best."--George Will
"What a great book this is. It takes you closer to the game than you could ever get otherwise."--Bill Parcells
An iconic American classic with nearly two million copies sold and more than 30 printings since publication in 1990
New York Times Number One bestseller
Named the fourth best book ever written on sports by Sports Illustrated and the best ever on football
Named the Best Sports Book of the past 25 years by ESPN
The basis for the acclaimed movie Friday Night Lights (2004) and the current NBC television series Friday Night Lights
Used as a text at hundreds of high schools and colleges around the country
"Friday Night Lights offers a biting indictment of the sports craziness that grips...most of American society, while at the same time providing a moving evocation of its powerful allure."--New York Times Book Review
"An engrossing story of a high school football season...Exciting, funny and, above all, horrifying."--Tracy Kidder
"A superb, if disquieting, portrait of heartland America."--Publishers Weekly
"Superb and disturbing...More than a sports book, it's a search for the America of ordinary people."--Newsday
"Excellent and apparently immortal."--Boston Globe
Finalist for the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award
"A full-scale portrait of a struggling American metropolis that brings to mind such classics of urban reportage and analysis as J. Anthony Lukas's Common Ground and Nicholas Lemann's The Promised Land."--New York Times Book Review
"An extraordinary book, an insider's account of the daily workings of a big-city administration."--New York Review of Books
"Brilliant and compelling...A Prayer for the City movingly captures the poignancy--the hope and heartbreak--of urban government in America."--Robert A. Caro
"A fascinating, humane portrait of the ills of urban America."--The New Yorker
"Bissinger's Philadelphia could be any major city in America, and this penetrating, seductively readable book belongs with two exceptional books he sought to emulate, Anthony Lukas's Common Ground and Robert A. Caro's The Power Broker." --David Halberstam
"Written with grace, humanity and life-affirming irony."--People
"What we see through Bissinger's unique lens is profoundly touching and inspiring, poignant and sad....If you really want to feel the heartbeat of the American city--and find a source of hope for its revival--you will find it here."--Philadelphia Inquirer
"A Prayer for the City is a superb book."--Miami Herald
