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Why Football Matters: My Education in the Game Audiobook
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Edmundson reflects on his own rite of passage as a high school football player to get to larger truths about the ways America's Game shapes its men.
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“Edmundson’s memoir attempts to explain why football means so much to him, and why its influence on his life has been so lasting…Enlightening and moving…Unafraid to challenge common assumptions about what football does and does not teach us, Edmundson’s book is uncommonly probing and insightful and should have wide-ranging appeal.”
— Publishers Weekly
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“A questing, questioning book…Mr. Edmundson…argues that football shifts our attention from difficult issues to simple ones, for both good and ill.”
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“Beautifully written and impressively thought out, this smart memoir should appeal to a wide audience.”
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“A provocative thesis bolstered by amusing and instructive anecdotes.”
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Longlisted for the 2015 PEN Literary Award
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About Mark Edmundson
Mark Edmundson teaches in the English Department at the University of Virginia. He is a contributing editor at Raritan and the prizewinning author of numerous works of cultural criticism, including Why Read?; Literature against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida; and Teacher. His essays have appeared in Harper’s, Oxford American, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the American Scholar.
About James Jenner
James Jenner is an actor known for Very Good Girls, Enemy Territory, and Third Watch.