Bryan Mealer
Deep in the Florida Everglades is the town of Belle Glades, the subject of Bryan Mealer’s study of football, poverty, and hope: Muck City: Winning and Losing in Football's Forgotten Town (Crown Archetype, $25.00). Beset by poverty, gangs, violence, and broken homes, Glades Central High School sends an average of eight players a year to NCAA Division I programs, and has had over thirty players reach the NFL in recent years. “A heartbreaking look at poverty in America, with some football on the side.” – Booklist, starred review. Mealer is the co-author of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind and the author of All Things Must Fight to Live, which chronicled his years covering the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a reporter for the Associated Press and Harper's.
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