Jeff Duncan - FROM BAGS TO RICHES: How the New Orleans Saints ...
You are invited to meet Times-Picayune sports reporter Jeff Duncan who is coming to Octavia Books to sign his new book, FROM BAGS TO RICHES: How the New Orleans Saints and the People of Their Hometown Rose From the Depts Together.
It's the ever-inspiring story of the New Orleans Saints’ 2009-2010 football season that culminated with the winning of the Super Bowl. The book explains how the struggling NFL team and the storm-weary people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast lifted one another’s spirits – and fortunes – in the post-Hurricane Katrina years, 2006 – 2010. The narrative is a study in contrasting moods, ranging from the depression and despair that come with being victims of the worst natural disaster in U.S. history, to the euphoria that accompanies the winning of the Super Bowl after 43 years of mostly losing seasons.
The book that most masterfully connects all of the dots in the Saints' miraculous climb to the football mountaintop -- a climb that began not in 2006, when Payton and Brees hit town, but in 1966, when the NFL awarded New Orleans a franchise -- is the one written by Times-Picayune sports writer Jeff Duncan....[It] is not a tell-all, behind-the-scenes look at the making of a champion, but the definitive narrative account of one of the greatest sports stories ever told.
--Mark Lorando, The Times-Picayune (see full story)
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Acadian House Publishing, 11/2010
- Street:
- 513 Octavia St
- City:
- New Orleans ,
- Province:
- Louisiana
- Postal Code:
- 70115-2055
- Country:
- United States
