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Blending biography and social history, this portrait of one of the first Black Americans to win fame and respect in the twentieth century draws on new interview material and translations from German press coverage
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Possibly boxing's greatest champion, Louis has been celebrated in many books, magazines, speeches, and even a film. Now Mead, Yale history and law graduate, takes a new lookboth sympathetic and realisticat the late boxer. Mead assails the bigotry and patronizing that faced Louis up to his victory over Max Schmeling and early Army enlistment in World War II, in contrast to the warm adulation given him for the rest of his life. Louis's fights, his exploitation by boxing's bosses, and his financial and marital failures are vividly related. A winner for any sports collection. Morey Berger, Monmouth Cty. Lib., Freehold,
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- PublisherScribner
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0684184621
- ISBN 13 9780684184623
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages330
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1985 hardcover with dustjacket. WELL-PRESERVED, UNREAD COPY. Bright, well-bound pages; Jacket shows very minor shelf-rubbing only. Nice copy overall. "From 1935 to 1947 Joe Louis was the best-known black man in America. A celebrity before anyone ever heard the name Jackie Robinson, Louis was not only a black star in the lily-white world of big-time sports but also the leading representative of his -- 'a credit to his race.' This new portrait of Joe Louis adds a dimension to what has already been written about the great boxer, showing how Louis rose above the open and ugly racism of his day to emerge as a major public figure who broke ground for the achievements of blacks in every field. When lyinching was still common in the South, Louis represented the United States against Nazi German's Max Schmeling in one of the most important fights of the century. Although sportswriters patronized him and tagged him 'the dark dynamiter' and 'the coffee-colored kayo king,' the US Army touted Louis during the 1940s, using him to sell World War II to blacks. Beneath this public hero was a private hero, a very young and uneducated man carefully groomed to fit the social conventions of his day. For the years the first characteristic anyone noticed about Louis was his color, but eventually he fought his way past his color to win the respect of the white press and the white public -- and with it the growing realization that blacks could participate in US life. CHAMPION is also the story of boxing in the United States, from backroom mayhem to the number-two professional sport in the country, making Louis rich and famous, welcome at front tables in such well-known social spots as the Stork Club. All Louis's major fights are here, recreated blow by blow from ringside films of the originals. Stirring sports history, crackling with such names as Jack Johnson, Damon Runyon, and Mike Jacobs, and important social history, bristling with the political antagonisms of the Louis-Schmeling fights and the ethnic and racial antagonisms of American life in the 1930s and 1940s, CHAMPION is a memorable chapter in twentieth-century American history.". Seller Inventory # 4655f
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