[PDF.61da] Battling Siki: A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s
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Battling Siki: A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s
Peter Benson
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| #2466924 in Books | 2008-07-01 | 2008-07-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.76 x1.05 x6.72l,1.19 | File type: PDF | 360 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A real surprise !|By D. Stover|Very well done ! I actually wasn't expecting this to be as good as it turned out to be . The author spent a great deal of time researching this boxers past and the entire period of the 1920's on more than one continent . The book is quite long, and I couldn't wait to pick it up every evening to read . Excellently written.|0 of 0 people found||
No man ever came out of Africa who had a more dramatic life or had a more tragic ending.” Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, at Siki’s funeral That extraordinary Sengalese.” Henry Miller, from Plexus Ever since colonialism h
Battling Siki (18871925) was once one of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world and was written about by a host of great writers, including George Bernard Shaw, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Janet Flanner, and Ernest Hemingway. Peter Benson’s lively biography of the first African to win a world championship in boxing delves into the complex world of sports, race, colonialism, and the cult of personality in the early twentieth century.
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