At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing by George Kimball (Editor), John Schulian (Editor), Colum McCann (Introduction)
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Overview: American writers have always been fascinated by the ring by the primal contest inside the ropes and the crazy carnival world outside them. From back alley gyms and smoke filled arenas to star-studded casinos and exotic locales, they have chronicled unforgettable stories about determination and dissipation, great champions and punch drunk has beens, colorful entourages and outrageous promoters, and, inevitably along the way, have written incisively about race, class, and spectacle in America. Like baseball, boxing has a vivid culture and language all its own, one that has proven irresistible to career sportswriters and literary essayists alike.
This gritty and glittering anthology gathers a century of the very best writing about the fights. Here are Jack London on the immortal Jack Johnson; H. L. Mencken and Irvin S. Cobb on Jack Dempsey vs. Georges Carpentier, the first “Fight of the Century” that captivated the world in the 1920s; Richard Wright on Joe Louis’s historic first round knockout of Max Schmeling.
Genre: Non-Fiction, Anthology, Sport, History
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