Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto

By Steve Almond

Book Overview

A New York Times Best Seller "Powerful...an important read." -- Publishers Weekly New York Times bestselling author Steve Almond takes on America's biggest sacred cow: football 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161219415X
• ISBN13: 9781612194158
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Melville House Publishing
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.0"