Never Give Up, James Harrison by Bill Moushey with Bill Parise

If he wasn't a man of such raw power and emotion who wears his angry persona on his sleeve, he could not have risen above extreme shyness and out from behind his mother's apron in Akron Ohio to become the only un-drafted free agent to become the best defensive player in the NFL.

If he didn't exude this will to succeed, he would never have overcome a series of daunting events that could have put him behind the wheel of a truck, a career he was considering after being cut four times by NFL teams, or worse.

Sometimes it's good. Sometimes it's bad.

In James Harrison's life, there is no point in looking back. But for the first time in this book, he will reveal the story of his past, which forged a will born out of necessity of real-life woes from which he could not walk away.

Bill Moushey is a long-time award-winning journalist whose stories have won numerous local, regional and national awards, including the prestigious 1997 National Press Club's Freedom of Information Award and being named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his groundbreaking expose of an out-of-control federal witness protection program. He has written extensively about misconduct by federal agents and prosecutors, and published numerous other probes into organized crime, political corruption and the underbelly of life.

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