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Title: Against Football
Subtitle: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto
Author: Steve Almond
Narrator: Peter Berkrot
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-17-15
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 18 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
In Against Football Steve Almond details why, after 40 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.
Critic Reviews:
"Almond makes a convincing case for the theory that Americans have turned to football in order to meet spiritual needs that arose as a result of industrial and social progress." (
Publishers Weekly)