| Description |
xxvi, 517 pages ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
Preface to the paperback edition [by John Schulian] -- Foreword by Colum McCann -- Disarming Candor, an Introduction by George Kimball -- The Fist and the Pen, an Introduction by John Schulian -- Johnson vs. Jeffries / Jack London -- Cobb Fights It Over Again / Irvin S. Cobb -- Dempsey vs. Carpentier / H. L Mencken -- The Orthodox Champion / Heywood Broun -- My Fights with Jack Dempsey / Gene Tunney -- Brown Bomber / Sherwood Anderson -- Pity the Poor Giant / Paul Gallico -- Louis Knocks Out Schmeling / Bob Considine -- High Tide in Harlem - Joe Louis as a Symbol of Freedom / Richard Wright -- Brownsville Bum / W. C. Heinz -- Night for Joe Louis / Red Smith -- Down Great Purple Valleys / John Lardner -- As It Was in the Long Ago / Frank Graham -- Kearns by a Knockout / A.J. Liebling -- Ahab And Nemesis / A.J. Liebling -- Archie / Jimmy Cannon -- The Fight - Patterson vs. Liston / James Baldwin -- Floyd Patterson / Gay Talese -- From 'James Norris And The Decline Of Boxing' / Barney Nagler -- The Champ And The Chump / Murray Kempton -- Miami Notebook - Cassius Clay And Malcolm X / George Plimpton -- Beethoven To Boxing / Larry Merchant -- Amen To Sonny / Joe Flaherty -- Muhammad Ali Then And Now / Dick Schaap -- From 'The Fight' / Norman Mailer -- Pride Of The Tiger / Robert Lipsyte -- "Lawdy, Lawdy, He's Great" / Mark Kram -- Nowhere To Run / John Schulian -- Roberto Duran's New York State Of Mind / Vic Ziegel -- Sweeter Than Sugar / Leonard Gardner -- The Fight (The King Is Dead) / Budd Schulberg -- from 'Moving Pictures' / Budd Schulberg -- Then All the Joy Turned to Sorrow / Ralph Wiley -- Eight Minutes of Fury / Pat Putnam -- Up the Stairs with Cus D'Amato / Pete Hamill -- from 'Paper Trails' / Pete Dexter -- from 'The Black Lights' / Thomas Hauser -- Never Say Never - Ray Mancini's Last Fight / Bill Barich -- Leonard-Hagler - The Fight and Its Aftermath / George Kimball -- |
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Ringworld / Gerald Early -- Still Hungry After All These Years / Richard Hoffer -- Donfire Of The Vanities / Mike Lupica -- Rape And The Boxing Ring / Joyce Carol Oates -- My Friend, My Teacher / Jerry Izenberg -- "The Fight's Over, Joe" / William Nack -- The Great (Almost) White Hope / Mark Kriegel -- Kid Dynamite Blows Up - Mike Tyson / David Remnick -- The Knockout - Lucia Rijker / Katherine Dunn -- From 'Compass Points - How I Lived' / Edward Hoagland -- Champion At Twilight / Carlo Rotella -- Sources And Acknowledgments - Index |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Subject |
Boxing -- Biography.
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Boxing -- History.
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| Author |
Kimball, George, 1943-2011, editor of compilation
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Schulian, John, 1945- editor of compilation
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| ISBN |
9781781311790 (paperback) |
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