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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612194915
• ISBN13: 9781612194912
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Melville House Publishing
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 7.5"