At the fights : American writers on boxing
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At the fights : American writers on boxing
Library of America, c2011
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- Johnson vs. Jeffries / Jack London
- Cobb fights it over again / Irvin S. Cobb
- Dempsey vs. Carpentier / H. L. Mencken
- The orthodox champion / Heywood Broun
- My fights with Jack Dempsey / Gene Tunney
- Brown bomber / Sherwood Anderson
- Pity the poor giant / Paul Gallico
- Louis knocks out Schmeling / Bob Considine
- High tide in Harlem: Joe Louis as a symbol of freedom / Richard Wright
- Brownsville bum / W. C. Heinz
- Night for Joe Louis / Red Smith
- Down great purple valleys / John Lardner
- As it was in the long ago / Frank Graham
- Kearns by a knockout ; Ahab and nemesis / A. J. Liebling
- Archie / Jimmy Cannon
- The fight : Patterson vs. Liston / James Baldwin
- Floyd Patterson / Gay Talese
- from James Norris and the decline of boxing / Barney Nagler
- The champ and the chump / Murray Kempton
- Miami notebook : Cassius Clay and Malcolm X / George Plimpton
- Beethoven to boxing / Larry Merchant
- Amen to Sonny / Joe Flaherty
- Muhammad Ali then and now / Dick Schaap
- from The fight / Norman Mailer
- Pride of the tiger / Robert Lipsyte
- "Lawdy, lawdy, he's great" / Mark Kram
- Nowhere to run / John Schulian
- Roberto Duran's New York state of mind / Vic Ziegel
- Sweeter than sugar / Leonard Gardner
- The fight (the king is dead) ; from Moving pictures / Budd Schulberg
- Then all the joy turned to sorrow / Ralph Wiley
- Eight minutes of fury / Pat Putnam
- Up the stairs with Cus D'Amato / Pete Hamill
- from Paper trails / Pete Dexter
- from The black lights / Thomas Hauser
- Never say never : Ray Mancini's last fight / Bill Barich
- Leonard-Hagler : the fight and its aftermath / George Kimball
- Ringworld / Gerald Early
- Still hungry after all these years / Richard Hoffer
- Donfire of the vanities / Mike Lupica
- Rape and the boxing ring / Joyce Carol Oates
- My friend, my teacher / Jerry Izenberg
- "The fight's over, Joe" / William Nack
- The great (almost) white hope / Mark Kriegel
- Kid Dynamite blows up : Mike Tyson / David Remnick
- The knockout: Lucia Rijker / Katherine Dunn
- from Compass points : how I lived / Edward Hoagland
- Champion at twilight / Carlo Rotella
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 501-505) and index
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内容説明
A collection of essays by James Baldwin, Norman Mailer, and other beloved American writers on the primal contest in the boxing ring-and the crazy carnival world outside it
From neighborhood gyms and smoke-filled arenas to star-studded casinos and exotic locales, American writers have chronicled unforgettable stories about determination and dissipation, about great champions and punch-drunk has-beens, about colorful entourages and outrageous promoters, and, inevitably along the way, about race, class, and violence in America. Like baseball, boxing has a vivid culture and language all its own, one that has proven irresistible to career journalists and literary writers alike.
The Library of America presents a gritty and glittering anthology of a century of the very best writing and reportage about the fights. Here is Jack London on the immortal Jack Johnson; H. L. Mencken and Irvin S. Cobb on Jack Dempsey vs. Georges Carpentier, dubbed "The Fight of the Century"; 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 the inimitable Archie Moore; James Baldwin and Gay Talese on the haunted Floyd Patterson; 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 legendary trainer and manager Cus D'Amato; Mark Kriegel on Oscar de la Hoya; and David Remnick and Joyce Carol Oates on Mike Tyson. National Book Award-winning novelist Colum McCann (Let the Great World Spin) weighs in with a foreword.
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