Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography - Hardcover

Ferguson, Alex

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9781473611085: Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1473611083 ISBN 13: 9781473611085

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 2014

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The celebratory, revealing, inspiring, and entertaining autobiography of the greatest manager in the history of British soccer—fully updated one year later

Sir Alex Ferguson's compelling story is always honest and revealing, and he reflects on his managerial career that embraced unprecedented European success for Aberdeen and 26 triumphant seasons with Manchester United. Sir Alex Ferguson's best-selling autobiography has now been updated to offer reflections on events at Manchester United since his retirement, as well as his teachings at the Harvard Business School, a night at the Oscars, and a boat tour round the Hebrides, where he passed unrecognized. The extra material adds fresh insights and detail on his final years as United's manager. Both the psychology of management and the detail of soccer strategy at the top level can be complex matters but no one has explained them in a more interesting and accessible way for the general reader than Sir Alex does here. Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography is revealing, endlessly entertaining, and above all, inspirational.

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About the Author:

Sir Alex Ferguson played for Queen's Park and five other professional soccer clubs, including the idols of his boyhood, the Rangers. He went on to manage Manchester United for 27 years. He has been interviewed on Charlie Rose and has been a guest speaker at Harvard University.

Review:

"His book is really a piece of oral history, and his life is a conduit to a time when a working-class man of talent could, not by the magical alchemy of elite education or the stardust of celebrity, but by a lifetime of hard work and hard thinking, rise to the very top and, flaws aside, remain true to the best of the world he came from." —Guardian

"My Goodness, this is fascinating." —Evening Standard

"Sir Alex Ferguson has written a lovely conversation. It is the sense of fatherly love that he brings to the book when he writes about the players club and the sport itself that makes it shine." —SILive.com

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