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Football: Great Writing About the National Sport - Hardcover

 
9781598533071: Football: Great Writing About the National Sport
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 159853307X ISBN 13: 9781598533071
Verlag: Library of America, 2014

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An All-Pro line-up of writers including Red Smith, Frank Deford, Jimmy Breslin, George Plimpton, Richard Price, Charles Pierce, Michael Lewis, and Roy Blount Jr tackle our most popular pastime: 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. Now, in a landmark collection, The Library of America brings together the very best of their work: 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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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

JOHN SCHULIAN was a sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and Philadelphia Daily News before moving to Hollywood, where he was, among other things, the co-creator of Xena: Warrior Princess. With George Kimball, he co-edited the Library of America anthology At the Fights. He is the author most recently of Sometimes They Even Shook Your Hand: Portraits of Champions Who Walked Among Us.


JOHN SCHULIAN was a sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times andPhiladelphia Daily News before moving to Hollywood, where he was, among other things, the co-creator ofXena: Warrior Princess. With George Kimball, he co-edited the Library of America anthologyAt the Fights. He is the author most recently of Sometimes They Even Shook Your Hand: Portraits of Champions Who Walked Among Us.

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Verlag
Library of America
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
159853307X
ISBN 13 
9781598533071
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
463
Herausgeber
Schulian John
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