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Steve Almond
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Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto |
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No copies available |
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English |
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Hardcover |
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192 |
Date: |
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2014-08-26 |
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161219415X |
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Melville House |
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0.6 pounds |
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0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 inches |
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Product Description
“Powerful...an important read." —Publishers Weekly
New York Times bestselling author Steve Almond takes on America’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:
• Does our addiction to football foster a tolerance for violence, greed, racism, and homophobia? • What does it mean that our society has transmuted the intuitive physical joys of childhood—run, leap, throw, tackle—into a billion-dollar industry? • 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 America’s favorite game with such searing candor.
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http://bookmooch.com/161219415X |
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