| Title | : | Against Football : One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto |
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| Author | : | Steve Almond |
| Release | : | 2015-02-17 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Biographies & Memoirs |
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| 1 | Against Football : One Fan's Reluctant M | Steve Almond |
| 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. |
