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Almond, Steve.
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Football -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Football fans -- United States -- Attitudes.
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Almond, Steve.
Football.
Football -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Football fans -- United States -- Attitudes.
MARC Display
Against football : one fan's reluctant manifesto /
Steve
Almond
.
by
Almond
,
Steve
.
Melville House, [2014]
Call #:
796.332 A452a
Subjects
Football.
Football -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Football fans -- United States -- Attitudes.
ISBN:
9781612194158
161219415X
Description:
xiii, 178 p. ; 20 cm.
Summary:
"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: 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 the leading signifier of our institutions of higher learning? Does our addiction to football foster a tolerance for violence, greed, racism, and homophobia? There has never been a book that exposes the dark underside of America's favorite game with such searing candor."--From publisher.
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