Battling Siki
A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s
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Publisher Description
Battling Siki (1887–1925) 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.
GENRE
Sports & Outdoors
RELEASED
2008
July 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
621
Pages
PUBLISHER
University of Arkansas Press
SELLER
Chicago Distribution Center
SIZE
7.3
MB