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Against Football
- Author
- Steve Almond
- Narrator
- Peter Berkrot
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 17 February 2015
- Run Time
- 4 hours 45 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
- 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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Details
- Author
- Steve Almond
- Narrator
- Peter Berkrot
- Duration
- 4 hours 45 minutes
- Release Date
- 17 February 2015
- ISBN
- 9781494578343
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Biography: general, Sports management and facilities, Sport: general, American football
Synopsis
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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