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The Battle of the Century: Dempsey, Carpentier, and the Birth of Modern Promotion

Autor Jim Waltzer
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 mai 2011 – vârsta până la 17 ani
This exciting account of the 1921 heavyweight boxing title fight between champion Jack Dempsey and Frenchman Georges Carpentier relates how it originated and how it became a template for modern sports promotion.Immortalized as the battle of the century by Ring Lardner, the Dempsey-Carpentier heavyweight title bout marked America's first experience with the intersection of show business, high society, politics, and the underworld at a single sporting event. The Battle of the Century: Dempsey, Carpentier, and the Birth of Modern Promotion offers the definitive history of this landmark event's genesis and impact.To explain why the fight had such a far-reaching influence on mass entertainment and modern culture, newspaperman Jim Waltzer invites readers to travel the path to the 1921 heavyweight championship. Along the way, they will meet a cast of outsize characters, including the savage defending champion (and alleged World War I slacker) Jack Dempsey, French pretty-boy war hero Georges Carpentier, promoter Tex Rickard, Dempsey's slippery manager Doc Kearns, and Jersey City boss Frank Hague. As the tale unfolds, so does an understanding of the forces that shaped the Roaring Twenties and established promotional hype as the MO of business.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780313382444
ISBN-10: 0313382441
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: 10 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

A bibliography

Notă biografică

Jim Waltzer, a longtime newspaper sports editor and freelance magazine writer, is the author of Tales of South Jersey: Profiles and Personalities and the novel Sound of Mind.

Cuprins

AcknowledgmentsPrologue1. Gold and Gambling2. Dustup in the Desert3. The Mouths That Roared4. Color of the Crown5. Conjuring an Unlikely Champion6. Ships in the Night7. Tornado from the West8. Across War and Continents9. Dynamic Duo10. Near Death in the Afternoon11. Right Hands and Steamer Trunks12. Slacker Trial13. An Earful at the Garden14. Cuban Capitalists15. Going Solo in Jersey City16. The Fight Finds a Home17. Sketches from Training Camp18. Girding for Battle19. Battle du JourEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndexPhoto essay following page 114.

Recenzii

Although the author devotes most of the book to the background of Rickard and the fighters, he closely followsthe evolution of the fight and shows how it fit into the culture of the 1920s. The story is not new, but it never seemsto get old. Summing Up: Recommended.