My Lists
Featured Lists
How soccer explains the world
an unlikely theory of globalization
By Foer, Franklin
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-06621-234-0
- Publisher
- New York, NY : HarperCollins, c2004.
REVIEWS
Library Journal
Reviewed on August 15, 2004
The ironic title is certainly audacious, but this book does not disappoint even though it fails to deliver on the full potential of what it promises. Interestingly, the truth freelancer Foer most helpfully finds in soccer is not globalization but its older and sometimes murderously persistent converse, nationalism, as engrossing chapters on professional teams in Serbia, Ital...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
