Carey Henry Keefe’s “A Tide of Dreams: The Untold Backstory of Coaches Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant, Carney Laslie & Frank Moseley” was published in October and released in paperback just in time for Father's Day. Keefe recently spoke with CregStephenson about it:
, just in time for Father’s Day. The following is an edited Q&A from that conversation.
Q: You make no bones about the fact you’re not really a football person. But there are so many universal things in the story, not only the drama of the military and World War II, and what that did to the country and their lives and all that, and the friendship between Bryant, Laslie and Moseley. That’s the core of the whole story, isn’t it?
A: “I read a few of them. And I talked to a few writers that had covered Bryant in his later years. was dead by then, but they said ‘all the old coaches talked about Carney’ but nobody really knew who he was. People did not remember him because he had died in 1970. And he was kind of a footnote, but they realized he was somebody important. But by the 1980s, there was just nobody left that knew the whole story going back to the 1940s.
Q: is obviously such a huge part of not only your book, but the life everybody who grew up in that generation. How do you think that changed or affected them, not only as football coaches, but as people for the rest of their lives?
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