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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Illustrated w/ 24 pages of photographs (illustrator). Stated First Edition. BRILLIANT: RIVITING: MASTERFUL: DRAMATIC: NEW: Stated First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2005) First Printing: NEW mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners w/ orig. $26.95 pub. price at top right inside front flyleaf, NEW cover w/ library-durable black linen wrapping spine & extending 1.50" onto front & back panels handsomely-covered in sky-blue paper, IMMACULATE text-block exterior w/ smooth-cut top & bottom edges & cut-page-style side-edging, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & pale-blue-&-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, IMPECCABLE white card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Elektra on EXCELLENT archival paper * 6.50" x 9.50" x 1.52", 0.92 kg, 423 pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: Nothing in the annals of sports has aroused more passion than the heavyweight fights in New York in 1936 & 1938 between Joe Louis & Max Schmeling: bouts that symbolized & galvanized the hopes, hatreds, & fears of a world moving toward total war. David Margolick takes us into the careers of both men. We see Louis in his boyhood & amateur days in Detroit & Chicago, & the blossoming of his boxing genius. We see him, already a near-mythical figure, taking New York by storm in the 1930s, fighting before record crowds, the savior of a sport that had fallen into decline & a long sought after symbol of redemption for black America after the scandalous reign of Jack Johnson two decades earlier. And we witness how w/ talent, a gentle personality, & shrewd management, Louis managed to trump the brutal racism directed at him & came to dominate what had been primarily a white man?s sport, becoming a hero of unprecedented power & influence in black America. Schmeling, we learn, was a kind of chameleon, a cultural icon in Weimar Germany who seamlessly, disconcertingly, maintained his privileged status after the Nazi takeover. He pulled off a remarkable feat, relying on a Jewish manager & a Jewish promoter in New York while being extolled at home as a model of "racial superiority". Margolick meticulously examines all the complex ties that developed between Schmeling & the Nazis, shattering the myth that they frowned upon him before he upset Louis in 1936?he was a ten-to-one underdog?& ostracized him after losing to Louis two years later. We see the extraordinary buildup to the 1938 rematch--the worsening international tensions seemingly raising the stakes--in which Louis would need only 124 seconds to defeat Schmeling, while radio allowed the whole world to listen. Margolick vividly captures the outpouring of emotion that the 2 fighters aroused--in the white South, in the black & Jewish communities in the United States, in Germany, everywhere--& makes clear the cultural & social divisions the two men came to represent as the threat posed by the Nazis became increasingly clear, & as America began to feel the effects of a nascent civil rights movement. Schmeling?s postwar success in business & Louis's sad decline add a poignant coda. A book at once about sports & about a pivotal moment in 20th-century history, "Beyond Glory" pulses with energy from first to last. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "In this RIVETING book, David Margolick has done a MASTERFUL job of combining a VIVID description of two truly DRAMATIC events--the Joe Lewis-Max Schelling matches--w/ an overview of the world in which they occurred: in this case, a world rushing to war." -Robert A. Caro * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: DAVID MARGOLICK is a longtime contributing editor at Vanity Fair, where he writes about culture, the media, & politics. He served as national legal affairs editor at The NYT, where he wrote the weekly "At the Bar" column for 7 years. He is the author most recently of "Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song". This is his 4th book. He lives in New York City. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps & packages this fine book w/ our greatest care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the United States & its territories or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below cost fee. Seller Inventory # 009954
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