Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: Boxing Lessons -- Introduction: Fight Night -- Part I. Gladiators of the Age of Contentment -- Chapter 1. “And the Winner�Television!� -- Chapter 2. “The Regular Friday Coaxial Bloodbath� -- Chapter 3. The Friday Night Fighters -- Part II. Indio -- Chapter 4. The Mexamerican -- Chapter 5. The Discovery of New York -- Chapter 6. Climb -- Chapter 7. The Tournament -- Chapter 8 .The Secret Government -- Chapter 9. Trouble -- Chapter 10. The Shot
Part III. The Hardest GameChapter 11. Bloodying the Sport -- Chapter 12. The Ship Goes Down -- Chapter 13. Changing Times -- Epilogue: Nightmares -- A Note on Sources -- Notes -- Index
Summary
'Friday Night Fighter' relives a lost moment in American postwar history, when boxing ruled as one of the nation's most widely televised sports
