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FootballTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Could this be the best book on football ever?" Tyler Cowen "Another masterwork from one of our greatest minds." Esquire "[An] essential playoff season read." People A hilarious but nonetheless groundbreaking contribution to the argument about which force shapes American life the most. For two kinds of readers those who know it's football and those who are about to find out. Chuck Klosterman New York Times

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Could this be the best book on football ever?" --Tyler Cowen

"Another masterwork from one of our greatest minds." --Esquire

"[An] essential playoff-season read." --People

A hilarious but nonetheless groundbreaking contribution to the argument about which force shapes American life the most. For two kinds of readers--those who know it's football and those who are about to find out.

Chuck Klosterman--New York Times bestselling critic, journalist, and, yes, football psychotic--did not write this book to deepen your appreciation of the game. He's not trying to help you become that person at the party, or to teach you how to make better bets, or to validate any preexisting views you might have about the sport (positive or negative). Football does, in fact, do all of those things. But not in the way such things have been done in the past, and never in a way any normal person would expect.

Cultural theorists talk about hyperobjects--phenomena that bulk so large that their true dimensions are hidden in plain sight. In 2023, 93 of the 100 most-watched programs on U.S. television were NFL football games. This is not an anomaly. This is how society is best understood. Football is not merely the country's most popular sport; it is engrained in almost everything that explains what America is, even for those who barely pay attention.

Klosterman gets to the bottom of all of it. He takes us to a metaphorical projection of Texas, where the religion of six-man football merges with America's Team [sic] and makes an inexplicable impact on a boy in North Dakota. He dissects the question of natural greatness, the paradox of gambling and war, and the timeless caricature of the uncompromising head coach. He interrogates the perfection of football's marriage with television and the morality of acceptable risk. He even conjures an extinction-level event. If Zizek liked the SEC more than he liked cinema, if Stephen Jay Gould cared about linebackers more than he cared about dinosaurs, if Steve Martin played quarterback instead of the banjo . . . it would still be nothing like this.

A century ago, Yale's legendary coach Walter Camp wrote his unified theory of the game. He called it Football. Chuck Klosterman has given us a new Camp for the new age, rooted in a personal history he cannot escape.

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Fun experience for a new toddler
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There are 6 flaps in total, so 12 pages for the book. Not much to read, but more for the interaction to open those flaps. The edges are rounded, so there shouldn't be any paper cuts for the little one. With that said, this book is thicker than usual, so it's a little tougher for the baby to flip through the chunky pages. The storyteller would probably enhance the reading of the book. And for now, the little one is saying "booooKK" for the past 3 days, wanting to get her hands on this new book.
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Cute little book about kindness
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It's not a story so much as a bunch of kind, polite phrases, but it rhymes and the illustrations are adorable; so, we enjoyed it anyway.
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Cute and beautiful
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It’s cute and merry sixteen month old loves it
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This book is sturdy, colorful and cute. The baby likes it, so we are happy we got it. The whole collection is worthwhile, and is very well designed for little hands. The baby is now 18 mo old.
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The book was beautifully illustrated.
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This book is perfect for a 2 year old to help to explain being kind.
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