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Originally Posted by LovesMacs
I'm splitting most of my reading between Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August, a history of the beginnings of World War I, and Franklin Foer's How Soccer Explains the World. I'm about halfway through these books.
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As for the Foer book, I've learned things I never knew before about the links between ultra-violent soccer (football) fans and the brutalities during the breakup of what used to be called Yugoslavia. There's more to the book than that, but I've only read as far as the discussion of who owns Brazil's football (soccer) clubs.
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Thanks for the recommendation for "How Soccer Explains the World" by Franklin Foer. Just finished it and found it very interesting. It's the first thing by Foer that I've read, and I'm looking forward to his new book coming out this fall.