Keep A-goin" The life of Lone Star Dietz by Tom Benjey selected as Best Biography Book of 2006 by NewBookReviews.org
- MADILL, OK, January 31, 2007 - New Book Reviews announced the 2006 winners in the NBR,org"s 2006 Spotlight Best Book of the Year Award. Tom Benjey"s Keep A-goin" The life of Lone Star Dietz selected as the best biography book of 2006 by New Book Reviews editors and reader base. Each year NBR.org selects from their Spotlight Book of the Week Winners, the best non-fiction biography book of the year. New Book Reviews criteria for Book of the Year Awards are: writing style and professionalism, marketability, subject interest, reader"s preference, and editor"s preference.
Keep A-goin" The life of Lone Star Dietz - Tom Benjey ISBN 0-9774486-1-4 Tuxedo Press
Synopsis: Until age 15, Billy Dietz thought he was the natural son of a prominent white couple in Rice Lake, Wisconsin. Overhearing the woman who raised him reveal part of the secret of his birth during an argument with his father started the young athlete and artist on an odyssey of self-discovery that took him to the St. Louis World"s Fair, Carlisle Indian Industrial School, the Rose Bowl and the heights of the football coaching profession. The secret of his birth became a principal issue in his sensational draft evasion trial after WWI. This book is the story of his rise and fall and how he kept a goin" inspite of what happened to him.
NewBookReviews Review:
Keep A-goin" The life of Lone Star Dietz by Tom Benjey Tom Benjey"s biography of the multi-talented and flamboyant Billy "Lone Star" Dietz, the half Sioux football coach, artist, actor, singer is absolutely spellbinding.. An early confidant of Pop Warner, at the very birth and infancy of college and professional football, Dietz was considerably famous in his day, and was well respected by those that came to know him, for his ability and mind-set for fair play. Benjey has brought together an impressive work. Featuring numerous drawings and illustrations of Dietz"s works and an incredible amount of facts about the many accomplishments, and disappointments of Dietz"s career in football and other fields of endeavor. Dietz"s tough mindedness and tenacity is on every page and his courage, in the face of adversity was heroic. His innovated use of the single and double wing offence, and a flexible defense, led many of his teams to some towering wins, including the 1916 Rose Bowl Game against Brown University. Football fans will have trouble putting Keep A-goin" The life of Lone Star Dietz down. Many historical events and characters are revealed to the reader skillfully by Benjey, who shows, without a doubt, that Billy "Lone Star" Dietz was an exciting and innovative part of history, and of the game we enjoy so much today . Impressive! Revealing and articulate!
Ray Ward editor6(at)newbookreviews.org
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