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Cargando... Strong Boy: The Life and Times of John L. Sullivan, America's First Sports Heropor Christopher Klein
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I received this book for free via Goodreads First Reads. Fantastic book. A definite must-read for boxing fans, sports fans, Irish Americans, and generally fans of biographies and interesting people. Christopher Klein has a clean good prose that makes it easily accessible to both sporting/boxing fans and non-fans alike. He holds nothing back and besides the segments near the end about John L. and the color line, Klein is very unbiased in his portrayal of John L. He totals and depicts both the good and the bad of John L. Sullivan's life without commentary or criticism (again - until the end about John L.'s racism). A fantastic read and an extraordinary book that definitely belongs on any boxing fan's bookshelf. I received this book for free via Goodreads First Reads. Fantastic book. A definite must-read for boxing fans, sports fans, Irish Americans, and generally fans of biographies and interesting people. Christopher Klein has a clean good prose that makes it easily accessible to both sporting/boxing fans and non-fans alike. He holds nothing back and besides the segments near the end about John L. and the color line, Klein is very unbiased in his portrayal of John L. He totals and depicts both the good and the bad of John L. Sullivan's life without commentary or criticism (again - until the end about John L.'s racism). A fantastic read and an extraordinary book that definitely belongs on any boxing fan's bookshelf. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"I can lick any son-of-a-bitch in the world." So boasted John L. Sullivan, the first modern heavyweight boxing champion of the world, a man who was the gold standard of American sports for more than a decade and the first athlete to earn more than a million dollars. He had a big ego, a big mouth, and even bigger appetites. His womanizing, drunken escapades, and chronic police-blotter presence were godsends to a burgeoning newspaper industry. The larger-than-life boxer embodied the American dream for latenineteenth-century immigrants as he rose from Boston's Irish working class to become the most recognizable man in the nation. In the process, the "Boston Strong Boy" transformed boxing from outlawed bare-knuckle fighting into the gloved spectacle we know today. Strong Boy tells the story of America's first sports superstar, a self-made man who personified the power and excesses of the Gilded Age. Everywhere John L. Sullivan went, his fists backed up his bravado. Sullivan's epic brawls, such as his seventy-five-round bout against Jake Kilrain, and his cross-country barnstorming tour in which he literally challenged all of America to a fight are recounted in vivid detail, as are his battles outside the ring with a troubled marriage, wild weight and fitness fluctuations, and raging alcoholism. Strong Boy gives readers ringside seats to the colorful tale of one of the country's first Irish American heroes and the birth of the American sports media and the country's celebrity obsession with athletes. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Fantastic book. A definite must-read for boxing fans, sports fans, Irish Americans, and generally fans of biographies and interesting people. Christopher Klein has a clean good prose that makes it easily accessible to both sporting/boxing fans and non-fans alike. He holds nothing back and besides the segments near the end about John L. and the color line, Klein is very unbiased in his portrayal of John L. He totals and depicts both the good and the bad of John L. Sullivan's life without commentary or criticism (again - until the end about John L.'s racism). A fantastic read and an extraordinary book that definitely belongs on any boxing fan's bookshelf. ( )