{"title":"David Goldblatt","description":"David Goldblatt was born in London in 1965 and lives in Bristol. He shares his affections between Tottenham Hotspur and Bristol Rovers. He is the author of The Ball is Round: A Global History of Football and Futebol Nation: The Story of Brazil Through Soccer. Since then he has made sport documentaries for BBC Radio, reviewed sports books for the TLS and the Guardian, taught the sociology of sport at Bristol University, the International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De Montfort University, Leicester and Pitzer College, Los Angeles.","products":[{"product_id":"the-games-a-global-history-of-the-olympics-paperback","title":"The Games: A Global History of the Olympics - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Boston Globe Best Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Games\u003c\/em\u003e is best-selling sportswriter David Goldblatt's sweeping, definitive history of the modern Olympics. Goldblatt brilliantly traces their history from the reinvention of the Games in Athens in 1896 to Rio in 2016, revealing how the Olympics developed into a global colossus and highlighting how they have been buffeted by (and affected by) domestic and international conflicts. Along the way, Goldblatt reveals the origins of beloved Olympic traditions (winners' medals, the torch relay, the eternal flame) and popular events (gymnastics, alpine skiing, the marathon). 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The changes in the game, David Goldblatt shows, uncannily mirror the evolution of British society. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the 1980s, soccer was described as a slum game played by slum people in slum stadiums. Such was the transformation over the following twenty-five years that novelists, politicians, poets, and bankers were all declaring their footballing loyalties. At one point, the Palace let it be known that the queen -- like her mother, Prince Harry, the chief rabbi, and the archbishop of Canterbury -- was an Arsenal fan. Soccer permeated the national life like little else, an atavistic survivor decked out in New Britain flash, a social democratic game in a cutthroat, profit-driven world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From the goals, to the players, to the managers, to the money, Goldblatt describes how the English Premier League (EPL) was forged in Margaret Thatcher's Britain by an alliance of the big clubs -- Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur -- the Football Association, and Rupert Murdoch's Sky TV. Goldblatt argues that no social phenomenon traces the momentous economic, social, and political changes of post-Thatcherite Britain in a more illuminating manner than soccer, and \u003ci\u003eThe Game of Our Lives\u003c\/i\u003e provides the definitive social history of the EPL -- the most popular soccer league in the world.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367403159775,"sku":"9781568585161","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/iOlksETD4z9781568585161.webp?v=1789106208"},{"product_id":"futebol-nation-paperback","title":"Futebol Nation - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo nation is as closely identified with the game of soccer as Brazil. For over a century, Brazil's people, politicians, and poets have found in soccer the finest expression of the nation's collective potential. Since the team's dazzling performance in 1938 at the World Cup in France, Brazilian soccer has been revered as an otherworldly blend of the effective and the aesthetic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFutebol Nation is an extraordinary chronicle of a nation that has won the World Cup five times and produced players of miraculous skill, such as Pel', Garrincha, Rivaldo, Zico, Ronaldo, and Ronaldinho. It shows why the phrase O Jogo Bonito -- the Beautiful Game -- has justly entered the global lexicon. Yet there is another side to Brazil and its game, one that reflects the harsh sociological realities of the \"futebol nation.\" David Goldblatt explores the grinding poverty that creates a vast pool of hungry players, Brazil's corrupt institutions exemplified by its soccer authorities, and the pervasive violence that has seeped onto the field and into the stands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFutebol Nation illuminates both Brazilian soccer and Brazil itself; its brilliance, its magic, its style, and the fabulous myths that have been constructed around it; as well as its tragedies, its miseries, and its economic and political injustices. 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