[nas] Book review

NYTimes
'How Soccer Explains the World': Of Headers and Hooligans
By JOE QUEENAN

Published: July 4, 2004
n his 1975 book ''The Painted Word,'' Tom Wolfe advanced the theory that 
Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art were cruel hoaxes foisted on the public by a 
cabal of Gotham con men. This was basically an indefensible position, but there 
was no one better equipped to fight such a gallant rear-guard action than the 
cunning Mr. Wolfe. Ultimately, the author found himself in the enviable 
position of having published one of the most entertaining books ever written 
about modern art, even though it was impossible to take the book's premise 
seriously
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/04/books/review/04QUEENAN.html


Washington Post
Team Spirit 
Reviewed by Jay R. Mandle 
Sunday, July 4, 2004; Page BW09 
HOW SOCCER EXPLAINS THE WORLD 
An Unlikely Theory of Globalization 
HOW SOCCER EXPLAINS THE WORLD

An Unlikely Theory of Globalization 

By Franklin Foer. HarperCollins.261 pp. $24.95


Franklin Foer, armed with a terrific idea, took six months off from his job as 
a staff writer at the New Republic to tour the soccer capitals of the world. He 
set out to observe soccer as a way to understand the consequences of 
globalization -- the increasing interdependence of the world's nations -- by 
studying a sport in which "national borders and national identities had been 
swept into the dustbin of soccer history." The result is a travelogue full of 
important insights into both cultural change and persistence. 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22125-2004Jul1.html

-- 
Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
pakurilecz@aol.com


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