“I wanted to come on this weekend, this Saturday, after a really traumatic week and I think in American life,” Stuart Stevens says. “Where I grew up in Mississippi and across the South, Saturdays in September was always about football. And today, in an hour or so, there's the Ole Miss-Arkansas game, which, in my household was always a very big event.”
You’ll want to tune in as Stuart talks about his book, The Last Season: A Father, a Son, and a Lifetime of College Football, which he wrote about returning to the South to spend time with his nonagenarian dad at Old Miss games after advising Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign.
"My experience is when you lose, you end up thinking a lot more about an reflective sense of what life means and what choices you've made,” Stuart says.
Stuart talks frankly about racism in the South and imperfect progress in America — and you just might feel optimistic after tuning in.
"I think that we don't have the right not to believe and hope that it will change,” Stuart says.
The Last Season: A Father, a Son, and a Lifetime of College Football
In this week’s Sunday on the Square literary selection, we revisit Stuart Stevens’ beautiful, poignant, and often hilarious book, “The Last Season: A Father, a Son, and a Lifetime of College Football.” In 2013, Stuart was fresh off serving as Chief Strategist on Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign. An examination of life, loss, and the power of col…
