Description: Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle
Brief description: Michael Oriard, who played professional football for the Kansas City Chiefs from 1970 to 1973, is Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at Oregon State University. He is author of Dreaming of Heroes: American Sports Fiction, 1868-1980, The End of Autumn: Reflections on My Life in Football, and Sporting with the Gods: The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Culture.
Review Quotes: "An admirable book. . . . Oriard's thesis is refreshingly original."--The Nation