{"product_id":"at-the-fights-american-writers-on-boxing-isbn-9781598530926","title":"At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of essays by James Baldwin, Norman Mailer, and other beloved American writers on the primal contest in the boxing ring—and the crazy carnival world outside it\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From neighborhood gyms and smoke-filled arenas to star-studded casinos and exotic locales, American writers have chronicled unforgettable stories about determination and dissipation, about great champions and punch-drunk has-beens, about colorful entourages and outrageous promoters, and, inevitably along the way, about race, class, and violence in America. Like baseball, boxing has a vivid culture and language all its own, one that has proven irresistible to career journalists and literary writers alike.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Library of America presents a gritty and glittering anthology of a century of the very best writing and reportage about the fights. Here is Jack London on the immortal Jack Johnson; H. L. Mencken and Irvin S. Cobb on Jack Dempsey vs. Georges Carpentier, dubbed “The Fight of the Century”; Richard Wright on Joe Louis’s historic victory over Max Schmeling; A. J. Liebling’s brilliantly comic portrait of a manager who really identifies with his fighter; Jimmy Cannon on the inimitable Archie Moore; James Baldwin and Gay Talese on the haunted Floyd Patterson; George Plimpton on Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X; Norman Mailer on the “Rumble in the Jungle”; Mark Kram on the “Thrilla in Manila”; Pete Hamill on legendary trainer and manager Cus D’Amato; Mark Kriegel on Oscar de la Hoya; and David Remnick and Joyce Carol Oates on Mike Tyson. National Book Award-winning novelist Colum McCann (\u003ci\u003eLet the Great World Spin\u003c\/i\u003e) weighs in with a foreword.“A knockout of a collection. Some of the finest boxing writing—or sports writing, period—I’ve ever encountered.” \u003cb\u003e—Dennis Lehane\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eGEORGE KIMBALL\u003c\/b\u003e (1943–2011) was a longtime sportswriter (\u003ci\u003eBoston Herald\u003c\/i\u003e) and the author of \u003ci\u003eFour Kings: Leonrad, Hagler, Hearns, and Duran and the Last Great Era of Boxing\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJOHN SCHULIAN\u003c\/b\u003e was a sports columnist for the \u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e before moving to Hollywood, where he was the co-creator of \u003ci\u003eXena: Warrior Princess\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eWriters’ Fighters and Other Sweet Scientists\u003c\/i\u003e. Both are recipients of the Nat Fleischer Award for Excellence in Boxing Journalism, awarded by the Boxing Writers Association of America.","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301202645221,"sku":"NP9781598530926","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781598530926.jpg?v=1767721907","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/at-the-fights-american-writers-on-boxing-isbn-9781598530926","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}