At the fights : American writers on boxing PDF
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GEORGE KIMBALL JOHN SCHULIAN EDITED BY & COLUM M CANN FOREWORD BY C AT THE FIGHTS AMERICAN WRITERS ON BOXING The Library of America Introductions, headnotes, and volume compilation copyright © 2012 by Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, N.Y. All rights reserved. No part of the book may be reproduced commercially by offset-lithographic or equivalent copying devices without the permission of the publisher. Some of the material in this volume is reprinted with the permission of holders of copyright and publishing rights. Acknowledgments begin on page 501. Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Group (USA) Inc. and in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Ltd. A hardcover edition of this book was published by The Librrary of America in 2011. First paperback editon published in 2012. THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA, a nonprofit publisher, is dedicated to publishing, and keeping in print, authoritative editions of America's best and most significant writing. Each year the Library adds new volumes to its collection of essential works by America's foremost novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and statesmen. If you would like to request a free catalog and find out more about The Library of America, please visit www.loa.org/catalog or send us an e-mail at [email protected] with your name and address. Include your e-mail address if you would like to receive our occasional newsletter with items of interest to readers of classic American literature and exclusive interviews with Library of America authors and editors (we will never share your e-mail address). Library of Congress Control Number: 2012932714 ISBN 978-1-59853-205-0 (print) eISBN 978-1-59853-202-9 (ePub) First eBook Edition: August 2012 Contents Preface to the paperback edition Foreword, by Colum McCann Disarming Candor, an Introduction by George Kimball The Fist and the Pen, an Introduction by John Schulian JACK LONDON Johnson vs. Jeffries IRVIN S. COBB Cobb Fights It Over Again H. L. MENCKEN Dempsey vs. Carpentier HEYWOOD BROUN The Orthodox Champion GENE TUNNEY My Fights with Jack Dempsey SHERWOOD ANDERSON Brown Bomber PAUL GALLICO Pity the Poor Giant BOB CONSIDINE Louis Knocks Out Schmeling RICHARD WRIGHT High Tide in Harlem: Joe Louis as a Symbol of Freedom W. C. HEINZ Brownsville Bum RED SMITH Night for Joe Louis JOHN LARDNER Down Great Purple Valleys FRANK GRAHAM As It Was in the Long Ago A. J. LIEBLING Kearns by a Knockout Ahab and Nemesis JIMMY CANNON Archie JAMES BALDWIN The Fight: Patterson vs. Liston GAY TALESE Floyd Patterson BARNEY NAGLER from James Norris and the Decline of Boxing MURRAY KEMPTON The Champ and the Chump GEORGE PLIMPTON Miami Notebook: Cassius Clay and Malcolm X LARRY MERCHANT Beethoven to Boxing JOE FLAHERTY Amen to Sonny DICK SCHAAP Muhammad Ali Then and Now NORMAN MAILER from The Fight ROBERT LIPSYTE Pride of the Tiger MARK KRAM “Lawdy, Lawdy, He’s Great” JOHN SCHULIAN Nowhere to Run VIC ZIEGEL Roberto Duran’s New York State of Mind LEONARD GARDNER Sweeter than Sugar BUDD SCHULBERG The Fight (The King Is Dead) from Moving Pictures RALPH WILEY Then All the Joy Turned to Sorrow PAT PUTNAM Eight Minutes of Fury PETE HAMILL Up the Stairs with Cus D’Amato PETE DEXTER from Paper Trails THOMAS HAUSER from The Black Lights BILL BARICH Never Say Never: Ray Mancini’s Last Fight GEORGE KIMBALL Leonard–Hagler: The Fight and Its Aftermath GERALD EARLY Ringworld RICHARD HOFFER Still Hungry After All These Years MIKE LUPICA Donfire of the Vanities JOYCE CAROL OATES Rape and the Boxing Ring JERRY IZENBERG My Friend, My Teacher WILLIAM NACK “The Fight’s Over, Joe” MARK KRIEGEL The Great (Almost) White Hope DAVID REMNICK Kid Dynamite Blows Up: Mike Tyson KATHERINE DUNN The Knockout: Lucia Rijker EDWARD HOAGLAND from Compass Points: How I Lived CARLO ROTELLA Champion at Twilight SOURCES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX
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