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The Game of Our Lives

By David Goldblatt

The Game of Our Lives Social Sciences

The Game of Our Lives

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WINNER of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2015 In the last two decades football in Britain has made the transition from a peripheral dying sport to the very centre of our popular culture, from an economic basket-case to a booming entertainment industry. What does it mean when football becomes so central to our private and political lives? Has it enriched us or impoverished us? In this sparkling book David Goldblatt argues that no social phenomenon tracks the momentous economic, social and political changes of the post-Thatcherite era in a more illuminating manner than football, and no cultural practice sheds more light on the aspirations and attitudes of our long boom and now calamitous bust. A must-read for the thinking football fan, The Game of Our Lives will appeal to readers of Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby and Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson. It will also be relished by readers of British social history such as Austerity Britain by David Kynaston. 'Brilliantly incisive. Goldblatt is not merely the best football historian writing today, he is possibly the best there has ever been. Goldblatt's book could hardly be more impressive' Sunday Times
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
400
Release Date:
2015-03-05
Publication Date:
2015-03-05
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0241955262
ISBN13:
9780241955260
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
0
Weight:
283 g
Height:
126 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
30 cm
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