The Dynasty

The Dynasty

by Jeff Benedict
The Dynasty

The Dynasty

by Jeff Benedict

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Now a 10-part docuseries on Apple TV+

From the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Tiger Woods comes the definitive inside story of the New England Patriots—the greatest sports dynasty of the 21st century.


It’s easy to forget that the New England Patriots were once the laughingstock of the NFL, a nearly bankrupt team that had never won a championship and was on the brink of moving to St. Louis. Everything changed in 1994, when Robert Kraft acquired the franchise and soon brought on board head coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady. Since then, the Patriots have become a juggernaut, making ten trips to the Super Bowl, winning six of them, and emerging as one of the most valuable sports franchises in the world.

How was the Patriots dynasty built? And how did it last for two decades? In The Dynasty, acclaimed journalist Jeff Benedict provides richly reported answers in a sweeping account based on exclusive interviews with more than two hundred insiders—including team executives, coaches, players, players’ wives, team doctors, lawyers, and more—as well as never-before-seen recordings, documents, and electronic communications.

Through his exhaustive research, Benedict uncovers surprising new details about the inner workings of a team notorious for its secrecy. He puts us in the room as Robert Kraft outmaneuvers a legion of lawyers and investors to buy the team. We listen in on the phone call when the greatest trade ever made—Bill Belichick for a first-round draft choice—is negotiated. And we look over the shoulder of forty-year-old Tom Brady as a surgeon operates on his throwing hand on the eve of the AFC Championship Game in 2018.

But the portrait that emerges in The Dynasty is more rewarding than new details alone. By tracing the team’s epic run through the perspectives of Kraft, Belichick, and Brady—each of whom was interviewed for the book—the author provides a wealth of new insight into the complex human beings most responsible for the Patriots’ success.

The result is an intimate portrait that captures the human drama of the dynasty’s three key characters while also revealing the secrets behind their success. “The Dynasty is…[a] masterpiece…It’s a relationship book, it’s a football book, it’s a business book…you’ll just eat up these stories” (Colin Cowherd).

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781982134129
Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 09/01/2020
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 592
Sales rank: 31,355
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Jeff Benedict is the bestselling author of seventeen nonfiction books. He’s also a film and television producer. He is the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Tiger Woods. The book was the basis of the Emmy-nominated HBO documentary Tiger, which Benedict executive produced. The Dynasty, the definitive inside story of the New England Patriots under Robert Kraft, Bill Belichick, and Tom Brady, was a New York Times bestseller. The book is the basis of a forthcoming ten-part documentary series for Apple TV+, which Benedict is executive producing. His critically acclaimed book Poisoned is the basis of a Netflix documentary, which Benedict executive produced. His legal thriller Little Pink House was adapted into a motion picture starring Catherine Keener and Jeanne Tripplehorn. Benedict wrote Steve Young’s New York Times bestselling autobiography QB, which was the basis of an NFL Films documentary. Benedict’s upcoming biography of LeBron James will be published in 2023. 

Table of Contents

Prologue ix

1 End Game 1

2 Bobby 8

3 Fathers and Sons 14

4 The Long Game 22

5 Leverage 34

6 Sold! 44

7 Meet the New Boss 53

8 This Guy Is Different 69

9 Not So Fast 77

10 She 88

11 The Trouble with Contracts 100

12 New England Versus New York 109

13 You Know Me 120

14 Dear John 127

15 Getting Belichick 139

16 Tommy 153

17 Building the Core 164

18 In an Instant 175

19 Changing Places 186

20 The Perfect Storm 199

21 We Are All Patriots 208

22 Growing Pains 221

23 All in the Family 233

24 League of Their Own 244

25 A Day in the Life 257

26 Loss 268

27 Reload 278

28 Transcendence 290

29 Inconsolable 304

30 Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself 316

31 No Place Like Home 326

32 The Passing 340

33 Breaking Bad 350

34 Moving On 362

35 On To Cincinnati 375

36 The Envy of the League 390

37 New England Versos Everybody 406

38 No One Knows Where the Top Is 426

39 Lord of the Rings 440

40 Heavy is the Crown 449

41 Tension 461

42 Threading the Needle 474

43 Shuttle Diplomacy 483

44 We're Still Here 499

Epilogue 516

Acknowledgments 523

Notes 527

Index 559

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