In this companion biography to the Ken Burns PBS television special, historian Geoffrey Ward tells of the life and times of the first African American to become the heavyweight boxing champion. Jack Johnson was a great athlete whose flamboyant lifestyle and prideful bearing engendered a strong reaction among the public in early 20th-century ...
A New York Times Bestseller A Publishers Weekly Editor's Choice After fighting some of the fiercest bouts in boxing history, Muhammad Ali now faces his most powerful foe - outside the ring, battling an illness that limits his physical abilities. Here the great champion takes readers on a spiritual journey through the seasons of life, from ...
A dynamic author-illustrator team follows the three-time heavyweight champ through 12 rounds of a remarkable life. Rap-inspired verse weaves, bobs, and jabs with relentless energy, capturing the great gift of rhyme of the man who shed the name Cassius Clay to take on the world as Muhammad Ali.
In this bountiful collection of his best boxing stories of the last half-century, Budd Schulberg takes his fans all the way back to an epic bare-knuckle contest in England two hundred years ago. Drawing a revealing portrait of Uncle Mike Jacobs, the promotional impresario of boxing in its Golden Age, the author expertly places Joe Louis and ...
This study of the former heavyweight boxing champion of the world examines the many mysteries surrounding Sonny Liston. What were his connections to organized crime? Why was Liston virtually abandoned by the boxing establishment in favor of the more mediagenic Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay)? Did Liston throw his two fights with Ali? What is the ...
Meet Jake La Motta: thief, rapist, killer. Raised in the Bronx slums, he fought on the streets, got sent to reform school, and served time in prison. Trusting no one, slugging everyone, he beat his wife, his best friends, even the mobsters who kept the title just out of reach. But the same forces that made him a criminalfear, rage, jealousy, ...
The first major pictorial retrospective of the American boxer Muhammad Ali, with photographs by Howard Bingham and text by bestselling author and Ali biographer Thomas Hauser.
Spirited, fast-paced, and rich in detail, Rocky Marciano: The Rock of His Times is the first book to tell the full story of the man, his sport, and his era. Emerging from obscurity to win the heavyweight crown in the early 1950s, Marciano fought until 1955, retiring with a perfect 49-0 record - a feat still unmatched today. Yet as much as he ...
The world's most famous goodwill ambassador offers inspiration and hope as he describes the spiritual philosophy that sustains him and his family. In this memoir, Muhammad Ali, with the assistance of his daughter Hana, writes about the values that shaped him and continue to guide his life beyond the boxing ring. Includes illustrations. 0-7432-5569 ...
There is only one winner in boxing. Fighting against your opponent and fighting against your own inner demons become one in the same. Those who survive both in and out of the ring are beloved worldwide, and those who do not spiral downward into drugs, prison, and even murder. This title tells the legendary tale of Johnny Tapia's life.
A sports journalist revisits the history-making 1975 bout between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. In doing so, he strips away some of the cherished myths around Ali in order to give him his due.
Sugar Ray Robinson (19211989) was hailed as the finest boxer to ever enter a ring. Muhammad Ali once called him "the king, my master, my idol"and indeed, he was the idol of everyone who had anything to do with boxing. But for African Americans, he was more than a great boxer. In an era when blacks were supposed to be humble and grateful for ...
Offering a unique perspective on sports, celebrity, and popular culture in the 1920s, this irresistible story is an insightful real-life tale replete with heads of state, irrepressible showmen, mobsters, Hollywood luminaries, and the cream of New York society in the 1920s.
Heavyweight Champion of the World from 1919 to 1926, Jack Dempsey, also known as the Manassa Mauler, began his boxing career as a skinny boy of sixteen, riding the rails and participating in hastily staged saloon bouts against miners and lumberjacks. In this incisive, fast-paced biography, Randy Roberts charts the life and career of a man widely ...
Evander Holyfield, one of America's most admired and beloved athletes, reveals the dramatic story of his rise from poverty to the very pinnacle of one of the world's toughest sports.
The first of three titanic bouts between Muhammad Ali, who was just coming back to the ring after being banned over his refusal to go to Vietnam, and Joe Frazier, who needed to beat Ali to prove that he was the greatest, transcended boxing and became a battle of two views of a nation reeling from the turbulent sixties. More than a blow-by-blow ...
When Jack Johnson defeated white heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries in 1910, it was America's notions of racial superiority that staggered under his blows. Amid riots and lynchings, the search began for the Great White Hope who could put the "uppity" new champion in his place. Here is the startling true story of the most famous--and most hated- ...
Iron Mike collects the best writing on the tumultuous fifteen-year career of the most reviled and idolized athlete in the world, Michael Gerard Tyson. Since becoming, at age nineteen, the youngest heavyweight champion in history, Tyson's dramatic rise, fall, and continuing struggle has provoked more passionate writing, both in and out of the ...
"This is a man writing and you should not read it if you cannot take a punch. . . . Mr. Algren, boy, you are good."-Ernest Hemingway "Algren is an artist whose sympathy is as large as Victor Hugo's, an artist who ranks . . . among our best American authors."-"Chicago Sun-Times" ""The Devil's Stocking" is clearly vintage Algren. . . . [He] seems ...
This is the story of Rocky Marciano, who remains today the world's only undefeated heavyweight boxing champion. Marciano didn't turn to boxing until age 25, and was considered too small to get into the ring with heavyweights. This compelling portrait is enhanced with 50 photographs.
Muhammad Ali is one of the world's best-known figures, and this incredible biography delves into precisely why. Bolden's careful research and elegant telling, paired with Christie's incredible paintings, make this a book that will inform and inspire readers of all ages. Illustrations.
This absorbing book unravels the reasons for the enduring respect and reverence that Muhammad Ali commands long after the end of his athletic career. It will appeal to those teaching and studying cultural studies, social theory, sports studies, and sociology, as well as to general readers interested in Muhammad Ali. It is a probing account of ...
No one gave James "Buster" Douglas much of a chance when he faced "Iron" Mike Tyson on February 11, 1990, in the Tokyo Dome. Tyson was Godzilla, and Buster wasn't expected to be anything more than a moth for Tyson to swat away, much less Mothra. Douglas had four losses already and 42-1 odds against him in this bout. One reporter, going through ...
Fully authorized by Muhammad Ali, this rare collection features personal memorabilia and vintage photos with essays and quotes from writers and friends. 70 color photos. 30 illustrations.
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