{"product_id":"against-football-one-fans-reluctant-manifesto-9781612194912","title":"Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAgainst Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto\u003c\/strong\u003e by Almond, Steve. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781612194912.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA New York Times Best Seller\n\n“Powerful...an important read.\" —Publishers Weekly\n\nNew York Times bestselling author Steve Almond takes on America’s biggest sacred cow: football\n\nIn 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:\n\n• Does our addiction to football foster a tolerance for violence, greed, racism, and homophobia?\n• What does it mean that our society has transmuted the intuitive physical joys of childhood—run, leap, throw, tackle—into a billion-dollar industry?\n• How did a sport that causes brain damage become such an important emblem for our institutions of higher learning?\n\nThere has never been a book that exposes the dark underside of America’s favorite game with such searing candor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Melville House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946499010613,"sku":"ByrdShop_1612194915","price":27.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781612194912_b0a0910d-2aee-40ba-9199-4be1e4568ae6.jpg?v=1778647034","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/against-football-one-fans-reluctant-manifesto-9781612194912","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}