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America's Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation Audiobook
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It's difficult to imagine today—when the Super Bowl has virtually become a national holiday and the National Football League is the country's dominant sports entity—but pro football was once a ramshackle afterthought on the margins of the American sports landscape. In the span of a single generation in postwar America, the game charted an extraordinary rise in popularity, becoming a smartly managed, keenly marketed sports entertainment colossus whose action is ideally suited to television and whose sensibilities perfectly fit the modern age.
America's Game traces pro football's grand transformation, from the World War II years, when the NFL was fighting for its very existence, to the turbulent 1980s and 1990s, when labor disputes and off-field scandals shook the game to its core, and up to the sport's present-day preeminence. A thoroughly entertaining account of the entire universe of professional football, from locker room to boardroom, from playing field to press box, this is an essential book for any fan of America's favorite sport.
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“It is a sports story, of course, filled with great games and rich characters. But it is also a big American story.”
— Kansas City Star
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“MacCambridge combines prodigious interviewing and research with a savvy use of anecdotes.”
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“A gem…Amazing…MacCambridge is a master storyteller.”
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“A thorough, admirably researched, and exceptionally interesting account.”
— Washington Post Book World
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A Washington Postn Pick of Nonfiction
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Winner of the Nelson Ross Award
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About Michael MacCambridge
Michael MacCambridge is an author, journalist, and TV commentator whose books have included the acclaimed America’s Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation. For eight years a columnist and critic at the Austin American-Statesman, he was later a contributor to A New Literary History of America. His freelance writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Sports Illustrated, and GQ.
About Sean Runnette
Sean Runnette, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, has also directed and produced more than two hundred audiobooks, including several Audie Award winners. He is a member of the American Repertory Theater company and has toured the United States and internationally with ART and Mabou Mines. His television and film appearances include Two If by Sea, Cop Land, Sex and the City, Law & Order, the award-winning film Easter, and numerous commercials.