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Football: Great Writing About the National Sport
Men’s Journal ’s “Ultimate Football Reading List”
“First-rate” sports writing on American football from an all-star line-up that includes Red Smith, Jimmy Breslin, Michael Lewis, and more ( Wall Street Journal )
Since football’s meteoric rise in the mid-twentieth century, the standout writers on the sport have gone behind and beyond the spectacle to reveal the complexity, the contradictions, and the deeper humanity at the heart of the game.
In a landmark collection, The Library of America brings together the very best of their gems of deadline reportage, incisive longform profiles of football’s storied figures, and autobiographical accounts by players and others close to the game. Celebrating the sport without shying away from its sometimes devastating personal and social costs, the forty-four pieces gathered here testify to football’s boundless capacity to generate outsized characters and memorable tales.
“First-rate” sports writing on American football from an all-star line-up that includes Red Smith, Jimmy Breslin, Michael Lewis, and more ( Wall Street Journal )
Since football’s meteoric rise in the mid-twentieth century, the standout writers on the sport have gone behind and beyond the spectacle to reveal the complexity, the contradictions, and the deeper humanity at the heart of the game.
In a landmark collection, The Library of America brings together the very best of their gems of deadline reportage, incisive longform profiles of football’s storied figures, and autobiographical accounts by players and others close to the game. Celebrating the sport without shying away from its sometimes devastating personal and social costs, the forty-four pieces gathered here testify to football’s boundless capacity to generate outsized characters and memorable tales.
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490 pages, Paperback
First published August 14, 2014
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August 31, 2015
There is some excellent journalism to be found here though the collection does suffer at times from too much repetition. The focus of the book is largely on pre-1980s football. The only interest shown in today's game is in its dilemmas regarding concussions and CTE and, while these are absolutely important topics to investigate, they have been written about and discussed in great detail in hundreds of other media outlets already. Still, this is a terrific collection that features some truly exceptional writing and any passionate football fan would be well-served to read it.
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