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Chuck Noll Biography Featured in Pittsburgh Magazine

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Chuck Noll Biography Featured in Pittsburgh Magazine

Chuck Noll: A Man for All Seasons In a conversation with Pittsburgh Magazine’s Mike Prisuta, MacCambridge provides a glimpse of how this long-awaited biography came to be. Book Excerpt: Head of the Class Noll’s affinity to educate — ‘Play the way you’ve been coached’ — leads to a super start. Immaculate Misconception Biographer Michael MacCambridge reveals Noll to be a thinker, a private family man, a connoisseur and a consummate leader — as four Super Bowl wins attest. View the FULL PDF.

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Legendary Steelers Coach Chuck Noll Fact Blitz

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Legendary Steelers Coach Chuck Noll Fact Blitz

from the new biography Chuck Noll: His Life’s Work by Michael MacCambridge To be published by University of Pittsburgh Press October 28, 2016 Chuck Noll won four Super Bowls and presided over one of the greatest football dynasties in history, the Pittsburgh Steelers of the 1970s. But Noll was an intensely private man, never revealing much of himself, not even to the players and fans that revered him. For the first time, Chuck Noll: His Life’s Work by national sports writer Michael MacCambridge tells the compelling human story of the legendary Steelers coach. MacCambridge traces Noll’s journey from a Depression-era…

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Photos from Poetry and Race in America

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Photos from Poetry and Race in America

“Poetry and Race in America: How the Humanities Engage with Social Problems,” sponsored by University of Pittsburgh Press (UPP) and the new Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (CAAPP), featured poetry readings by Toi Derricotte, Ross Gay, Rickey Laurentiis, Nate Marshall, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, and Afaa Michael Weaver, and a moderated discussion with the panelists by Terrance Hayes. The event took place on March 21, 2016 at the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium in Oakland, on the University of Pittsburgh campus. Photos by Aimee Colabine Beattie.

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FULL VIDEO of Poetry and Race in America

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FULL VIDEO of Poetry and Race in America

For those of you who weren’t able to join us and those of you who want to relive this special evening, here is the full video of the landmark event, Poetry and Race in America. Please wait a few seconds for the video to load.   You can also watch the video full screen here.  

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A successful event and a meaningful conversation that is just beginning

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A successful event and a meaningful conversation that is just beginning

“I found myself enraptured at every moment, and it was incredible to see such a packed house for poetry. Thank you all for gathering these authors all together in one place for such an important conversation.” –Rachel Mennies Goodmanson, attendee “We reached a huge number of people with a really meaningful discussion, with our authors representing the very best of what their work, and the efforts of this Press, can do on a matter of the greatest public significance.  It is our natural role as publishers to bring the ideas of our authors to the widest possible audience; and as…

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