Bibliograph

At the fights, American writers on boxing, edited by George Kimball & John Schulian ; foreword by Colum McCann

Type

Label

At the fights, American writers on boxing, edited by George Kimball & John Schulian ; foreword by Colum McCann

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-505) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

At the fights

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

644664820

Responsibility statement

edited by George Kimball & John Schulian ; foreword by Colum McCann

Sub title

American writers on boxing

Summary

Features literary excerpts and articles written by sportswriters and authors that celebrate one hundred years of American boxing

Table Of Contents

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

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