Beyond the Ring: The Role of Boxing in American Society (Sport and Society) - Softcover

Sammons, Jeffrey T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252061454 ISBN 13: 9780252061455

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1990

Synopsis

Carefully documents the ruin waiting for almost all those ill-advised enough to become professional boxers

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Review:

"Carefully documents the ruin waiting for almost all those ill-advised enough to become professional boxers. He confirms all the legends, of crime, of swindling, of the miserable economic rewards allotted to the vast majority of fighters... the traditional racism of the American ring... No one, reading Sammons, can doubt that it is evil." -- Times Literary Supplement

About the Author:

Jeffrey T. Sammons is professor in the Department of History at New York University and the author of Beyond the Ring: The Role of Boxing in American Society. John H. Morrow, Jr., Franklin Professor of History at the University of Georgia, is the author of several books, including The Great War: An Imperial History.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0252061454
• ISBN 13: 9780252061455
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376