Object Lessons Football - Mark Yakich Kartoniert (TB)

Object Lessons is a series of short beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.When is the beautiful game at its most beautiful? How does football function as a lens through which so many view their daily lives? What's right in front of fans that they never see? Football celebrates and scrutinizes the world's most popular sport-from top-tier professionals to children just learning the game. As an American who began playing football in the 1970s as it gained a foothold in the States Mark Yakich reflects on his own experiences alongside the sport's social and politica l implications its narrative and documentary depictions and its linguistic idiosyncrasies. Illustrating how football can be at once absolutely vital and only a game this book will be surprising and insightful for the casual and diehard fan alike.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.