Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto
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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.
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Almond, S., & Berkrot, P. (2015). Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto. Unabridged. Tantor Media, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Almond, Steve and Peter, Berkrot. 2015. Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto. Tantor Media, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Almond, Steve and Peter, Berkrot, Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto. Tantor Media, Inc, 2015.
MLA Citation (style guide)Almond, Steve, and Peter Berkrot. Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto. Unabridged. Tantor Media, Inc, 2015.
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| dateLastUpdated | Jul 10, 2025 06:12:15 PM |
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