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Against Football: One Fan’s Reluctant Manifesto

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A New York Times Highest Seller

“Powerful…a very powerful read.”Publishers Weekly

New York Times bestselling writer Steve Almond takes on The us’s biggest sacred cow: football

In Against Football, Steve Almond details why, after forty years as a fan, he can now not watch the sport he still loves. The usage of 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, take on—into a billion-dollar industry?
• How did a sport that causes brain damage develop into such a very powerful emblem for our institutions of upper learning?

There has never been a book that exposes the dark underside of The us’s favorite game with such searing candor.

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