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Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto

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Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto

A New York Times Best Seller

â€œPowerful...an important read." â€”Publishers Weekly

New York Times bestselling author Steve Almond takes on Americaâ€™s biggest sacred cow: football

In Against Football, Steve Almond details why, after forty years as a fan, he can no longer watch the game he still loves. Using a synthesis of memoir, reportage, and cultural critique, Almond asks a series of provocative questions:

â€¢ Does our addiction to football foster a tolerance for violence, greed, racism, and homophobia?
â€¢ What does it mean that our society has transmuted the intuitive physical joys of childhoodâ€”run, leap, throw, tackleâ€”into a billion-dollar industry?
â€¢ How did a sport that causes brain damage become such an important emblem for our institutions of higher learning?

There has never been a book that exposes the dark underside of Americaâ€™s favorite game with such searing candor.
Country USA
Brand Melville House
Manufacturer Melville House
Binding Paperback
Color White
ReleaseDate 2015-08-18
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781612194912

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