Muhammad Ali
Author | : Alan Goldstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781780979076 |
The story of an extraordinary man.
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Author | : Alan Goldstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781780979076 |
The story of an extraordinary man.
Author | : Matt de la Peña |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2013-12-26 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0147510619 |
The magnificent, inspiring story of an AMERICAN SPORTS HERO, by Newbery Award-winning author Matt de la Pena. On the eve of World War II, African-American boxer Joe Louis fought German Max Schmeling in a bout that had more at stake than just the world heavyweight title. For much of America, their fight came to represent America’s war with Germany. This elegant and powerful picture book biography centers on this historic fight in which the American people came together to celebrate our nation’s founding ideals. New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book Award Booklist Editor's Choice Best Books of 2011 School Library Journal Best Books of 2011
Author | : Gerald R. Gems |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2014-03-13 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1442229918 |
Sports fans have long been fascinated with boxing and the brutal demonstration of physical and psychological conflict. Accounts of the sport appear as far back as the third millennium BC, and Greek and Roman sculptors depicted the athletic ideals of the ancient era in the form of boxers. In the present day, boxers such as Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Sugar Ray Robinson, Oscar De La Hoya, Manny Pacquiao, and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. are recognized throughout the world. Boxing films continue to resonate with audiences, from the many Rocky movies to Raging Bull, The Fighter, Million Dollar Baby, and Ali. In Boxing: A Concise History of the Sweet Science, Gerald R. Gems provides a succinct yet wide ranging treatment of the sport, covering boxing’s ancient roots and its evolution, modernization, and global diffusion. The book not only includes a historical account of boxing, but also explores such issues as social class, race, ethnic rivalries, religious influences, gender issues, and the growth of female boxing. The current debates over the moral and ethical issues relative to the sport are also discussed. While the primary coverage of the political, social, and cultural impacts of boxing focuses on the United States, Gems’ examination encompasses the sport on a global level, as well. Covering important issues and events in the history of boxing and featuring numerous photographs, Boxing: A Concise History of the Sweet Science will be of interest to boxing fans, historians, scholars, and those wanting to learn more about the sport.
Author | : Alan Goldstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : African American boxers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alan J. Goldstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : African American boxers |
ISBN | : 9781741814316 |
Author | : Alan J. Goldstein |
Publisher | : Carlton Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography |
ISBN | : 9781858689517 |
Muhammad Ali was named Sportsman of the Century by "Sports Illustrated", and this is his story. Every word in this book was spoken by someone who was there as the fighter's incredible life was unfolding both inside and outside the ring. 150 illustrations, 100 in color.
Author | : Kasia Boddy |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 2008-05-15 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1861896174 |
Boxing is one of the oldest and most exciting of sports: its bruising and bloody confrontations have permeated Western culture since 3000 BC. During that period, there has hardly been a time in which young men, and sometimes women, did not raise their gloved or naked fists to one other. Throughout this history, potters, sculptors, painters, poets, novelists, cartoonists, song-writers, photographers and film-makers have been there to record and make sense of it all. In her encyclopaedic investigation, Kasia Boddy sheds new light on an elemental sports and struggle for dominance whose weapons are nothing more than fists. Boddy examines the shifting social, political and cultural resonances of this most visceral of sports, and shows how from Daniel Mendoza to Mike Tyson, boxers have embodied and enacted our anxieties about race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality. Looking afresh at everything from neoclassical sculpture to hip-hop lyrics, Boxing explores the way in which the history of boxing has intersected with the history of mass media, from cinema to radio to pay-per-view. The book also offers an intriguing new perspective on the work of such diverse figures as Henry Fielding, Spike Lee, Charlie Chaplin, Philip Roth, James Joyce, Mae West, Bertolt Brecht, and Charles Dickens. An all-encompassing study, Boxing ultimately reveals to us just how and why boxing has mattered so much to so many.
Author | : Charles R. Smith |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2007-11-13 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780763616922 |
A brief biography in verse of boxer Muhammad Ali.
Author | : Jeffrey Sussman |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2019-05-08 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1538113163 |
More than any other sport, boxing has a history of being easy to rig. There are only two athletes and one or both may be induced to accept a bribe; if not the fighters, then the judges or referee might be swayed. In such inviting circumstances, the mob moved into boxing in the 1930s and profited by corrupting a sport ripe for exploitation. In Boxing and the Mob: The Notorious History of the Sweet Science, Jeffrey Sussman tells the story of the coercive and criminal underside of boxing, covering nearly the entire twentieth century. He profiles some of its most infamous characters, such as Owney Madden, Frankie Carbo, and Frank Palermo, and details many of the fixed matches in boxing’s storied history. In addition, Sussman examines the influence of the mob on legendary boxers—including Primo Carnera, Sugar Ray Robinson, Max Baer, Carmen Basilio, Sonny Liston, and Jake LaMotta—and whether they caved to the mobsters’ threats or refused to throw their fights. Boxing and the Mob is the first book to cover a century of fixed fights, paid-off referees, greedy managers, misused boxers, and the mobsters who controlled it all. True crime and the world of boxing are intertwined with absorbing detail in this notorious piece of American history.