Format:
376 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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24 cm
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9780062654465
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0062654462
Content:
Prologue: The love -- Billy Boy -- The hammer or the nail? -- Cloverlay -- Asswhuppings -- Sky larking -- "Give me a hamburger" -- The fight of the century -- Down goes Frazier -- May pops -- Boogie, boogie, boogie -- Sons -- Man to man
Content:
History will remember the rivalry of Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali as one for the ages. A trilogy of extraordinary fights that transcended the world of sports and crossed into a sociocultural drama that divided the country. Joe Frazier was a much more complex figure than just his rivalry with Ali would suggest. In this riveting and nuanced portrayal, acclaimed sportswriter Mark Kram, Jr. unlinks Frazier from Ali and for the first time gives a full-bodied accounting of Frazier's life. A journey that began as the youngest of thirteen children packed in small farmhouse, encountering the bigotry and oppression of the Jim Crow South, and continued with his voyage north at age fifteen to develop as a fighter in Philadelphia
Content:
A trilogy of fights between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali transcended the world of sports and crossed into a sociocultural drama that divided the country. Joe Frazier was a much more complex figure than his rivalry with Ali would suggest. Kram gives a full-bodied accounting of Frazier's life, a journey that began as the youngest of thirteen children packed in small farmhouse, encountering the bigotry and oppression of the Jim Crow South, up to his retirement in 1981-- and beyond. -- adapted from jacket
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-361) and index
Language:
English
Keywords:
Biografie
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