American Kings

Advance Praise for American Kings: ""Seth has written a masterpiece. American Kings is a unicorn of a book. There is the usual incredible reporting on the deep inner workings of the NFL that you’ve come to expect from Seth. There is the deep and surprising levels of access to everyone from Y.A. Tittle to Caleb Williams, from John Elway to Arch Manning. It just vibrates with the literary universal; the book becomes, by the end, a parable about American ambition, which feels like the exact window we need right now into our national psyche. This will go down as one of the greatest sports books ever, and one of the best books of the year period."" —Wright Thompson, New York Times bestselling author of Pappyland, The Barn, and The Cost of These Dreams Praise for Wickersham's It's Better to Be Feared, the National Sports Media Association's Book of the Year: “Seth Wickersham has managed to do the impossible: he has pulled off the definitive document of the Belichick/Brady dynasty.” ―Bill Simmons, The Ringer ""On my Mount Rushmore of sports books. The writing is fantastic, the reporting better."" ―Peter King, NBC Sports ""[A]n honest, sprawling, meticulously reported, and beautifully written portrayal of perhaps the greatest and probably the most unlikely dynasty in modern professional sports . . . [Wickersham] draws richly detailed portraits of Brady, Belichick, the dynasty’s third constant in owner Robert Kraft, and how their personalities and relationships changed through the years . . ."" ― Chad Finn, Boston Globe ""Wickersham’s fly-on-the-wall accounts are fascinating, but he’s at his best when he explains, carefully and evenhandedly, how the business of football works. . . Exemplary sports journalism that examines the front office and dueling egos as much as the gridiron."" ― Kirkus Reviews, starred review