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Title: Floyd Patterson: The Fighting Life of Boxing's Invisible Champion
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
Publication Date: 2012
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1845963326
ISBN 13: 9781845963323
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

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W.K. Stratton tells the extraordinary story of the first man to win the world heavyweight boxing title twice: Floyd Patterson. In his 1962 fight against Sonny Liston, Patterson came to symbolise both the hopes and fears of Americans during the battle for civil rights.

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"Floyd Patterson revives the life of a boxer who was larger outside the ring than within it, a boxer who had a heart and humanity (and courage) beyond what his fight record revealed. He overcame obstacles and persevered in a manner that his more ferocious opponents did not." — Gay Talese, author of The Silent Season of a Hero

"A knockout biography of the best boxer in 1950s and early-1960s America. From winning an Olympic gold medal to developing the peekaboo stance that influenced Muhammad Ali, Patterson was a monumental influence on the boxing profession during its Cold War–era heyday. Highly recommended!" — Douglas Brinkley, author of Cronkite

"A refreshingly honest and evenhanded deconstruction of the owner of the uneasiest head to wear a crown this side of Henry IV." — George Kimball, author of Four Kings: Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran and the Last Great Era of Boxing

"Patterson was one of the more beguiling and hypnotic figures to stride across the stage of twentieth-century boxing. Stratton tells the story of this proud and mannered man with insight and artful compassion." — Wil Haygood, author of Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson

"Stratton provides some fascinating insights into surely our most inscrutable heavyweight champion. Floyd Patterson is comprehensive and sensitive as it seeks to help us understand a man who seemed so temperamentally in contradiction with his profession." — Frank Deford, author of Everybody’s All-American

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