Against Football

Against Football
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Publisher : Melville House
Total Pages : 146
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ISBN-10 : 9781612194165
ISBN-13 : 1612194168
Rating : 4/5 (168 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Against Football by : Steve Almond

Download or read book Against Football written by Steve Almond and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Best Seller “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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