-An eccentric, fascinating expose of a world most of us know nothing about.-
--The New York Times Book Review

-An insightful, entertaining, brainiac sports road trip.-
--The Wall Street Journal

-Foer's skills as a narrator are enviable. His characterizations... are comparable to those in Norman Mailer's journalism.-
--The Boston Globe

A groundbreaking work--named one of the five most influential sports books of the decade by Sports Illustrated--How Soccer Explains the World is a unique and brilliantly illuminating...

The Promise of American Life is part of the bedrock of American liberalism, a classic that had a spectacular impact on national politics when it was first published in 1909 and that has been recognized ever since as a defining text of liberal reform. The book helped inspire Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism and Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, put Herbert Croly on a path to become the founding editor of the New Republic, and prompted Walter Lippmann to call him twentieth-century America's "first important political philosopher." The book is at once a history of America...