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Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto
Against Football One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto Author: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... more » 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.« less
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