[PDF.32ek] The Longest Fight: In the Ring with Joe Gans, Boxing's First African American Champion

The Longest Fight: In the Ring with Joe Gans, Boxing's First African American Champion

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 | #1368779 in Books |  2012-06-19 |  2012-06-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.51 x.92 x5.96l,.85 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| One Terrific Read !!!|By HE Grant|I've been a boxing fan for over forty years and there is very little that has been written in that period of time and before for that matter that I have not read. Boxing books tend to fall into categories .. some are simple thin recounts, some are sociological portraits of a man and his time and some are transport you into the man with a touch| |A gem of a book . . . In lean prose, Gildea gives us a blow-by-blow account of Gans's career. He pivots from describing the fight to exploring his subject's life to examining the racism of the age and the contradictions of 'sportsmanship' that belittled blacks

Many people came to Goldfield, Nevada, America's last gold-rush town, to seek their fortune. However, on a searing summer day in September 1906, they came not to strike it rich but to watch what would become the longest boxing match of the twentieth century--between Joe Gans, the first African American boxing champion, and "Battling" Nelson, a vicious and dirty brawler. It was a match billed as the battle of the races.

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You easily download any file type for your gadget.The Longest Fight: In the Ring with Joe Gans, Boxing's First African American Champion   |  William Gildea. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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