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Against Football

by Steve Almond
Peter Berkrot
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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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Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc. Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781494528348
  • File size: 137037 KB
  • Release date: February 18, 2015
  • Duration: 04:45:29

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  • ISBN: 9781494528348
  • File size: 137059 KB
  • Release date: February 18, 2015
  • Duration: 04:45:27
  • Number of parts: 5
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Biography & Autobiography Sports & Recreations Nonfiction

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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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Biography & Autobiography Sports & Recreations Nonfiction