How football explains America

By Sal Paolantonio

Subjects: Football, history, Sports, social aspects, Football, Social aspects, History, Social aspects of Football

Description: Here at last is the first book to fully explain how and why the game of football became America's most powerful and financially successful entertainment phenomenon--and how this country's pioneers of sports, games, industry, and politics helped transform a sleepy game inherited from Europe into one that would explain what America wanted to become and who we are as a people.