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    Kick off football season with these entertaining new books

    by Ed Sherman, Chicago Tribune Aug 29, 2018 3 minutes

    "Football for a Buck" by Jeff Pearlman, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 384 pages, $28

    Failure in sports often produces some of the most entertaining reads. "Football for a Buck," Jeff Pearlman's new book on the United States Football League, ranks among the best. Pearlman, author of best-selling biographies on Walter Payton and Brett Favre, provides a lively, bawdy account of the USFL's run from 1983-86. The league ultimately was doomed by a future president of the United

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