At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing
A Library of America Special Publication
Named a best book of 2011 by the San Francisco Chronicle, At the Fights is a gritty and glittering anthology of the very best writing about boxing. Here are Jack London on the immortal Jack Johnson; Richard Wright on Joe Louis's historic victory over Max Schmeling; A. J. Liebling's brilliantly comic portrait of a manager who really identifies with his fighter; Jimmy Cannon on Archie Moore, the greatest fighter of the 1950s; James Baldwin and Gay Talese on Floyd Patterson's epic fight with Sonny Liston; George Plimpton on Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X; Norman Mailer on the Rumble in the Jungle; Mark Kram on the Thrilla in Manila; Pete Hamill on l…
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Weitere Autoren: Kimball, George (Hrsg.) / Schulian, John (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-59853-202-9
- EAN: 9781598532029
- Produktnummer: 28288008
- Verlag: Library of America
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 560 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 670 KB
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GEORGE KIMBALL (1943-2011) was a longtime sportswriter (Boston Herald) and the author of Four Kings: Leonrad, Hagler, Hearns, and Duran and the Last Great Era of Boxing. JOHN SCHULIAN was a sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and Philadelphia Daily News before moving to Hollywood, where he was the co-creator of Xena: Warrior Princess. He is the author of Writers' Fighters and Other Sweet Scientists. Both are recipients of the Nat Fleischer Award for Excellence in Boxing Journalism, awarded by the Boxing Writers Association of America.
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