Most scholars don't write well; Allen Josephs writes superbly.Most fans of a sport---afficionados---offer only one side; Allen Josephs lays out, with great clarity, the good and the bad.Whatever you think about "bull-fighting"----and I confess, I used to root for the bull----this book will make you think and very probably change your mind.In essence, a superb work of scholarship which reads as well as a novel.