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1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 45 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
Cast |
Read by Peter Berkrot. |
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: 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. |
System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
Subject |
Football -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Football fans -- United States -- Attitudes.
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Added Author |
Berkrot, Peter, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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ISBN |
9781494528348 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1494528347 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
Music No. |
MWT11285451 |
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