Why Football Matters: My Education in the Game

Written by Mark Edmundson

Narrated by James Jenner

Edmundson reflects on his own rite of passage as a high school football player to get to larger truths about the ways America's Game shapes its men.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Sep 4, 2014
• ISBN: 9781490649528

Mark Edmundson

Mark Edmundson teaches at the University of Virginia, where he is university professor. A prizewinning scholar, he is the author of Why Write?, Why Teach?, Why Read?, Teacher, The Death of Sigmund Freud, and The Fine Wisdom and Perfect Teachings of the Kings of Rock and Roll. His writing has appeared in such publications as the New Republic,the New York Times Magazine, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Nation, the American Scholar, Raritan and Harper's. He lives in Batesville, Virginia.