Paul Beston se adentra en la rica historia y el significado cultural del boxeo, ofreciendo a los lectores una exploración profunda de momentos y figuras cruciales dentro del deporte. Su escritura no solo narra logros atléticos, sino que también desvela sus ramificaciones sociales y culturales más amplias. Como editor de una revista destacada, Beston aporta una perspectiva aguda a sus análisis de la evolución e impacto del boxeo. Su habilidad para conectar las narrativas deportivas con su contexto histórico hace que su obra sea cautivadora para los entusiastas tanto del deporte como de la historia.
For much of the twentieth century, boxing was one of America's most popular sports. This book details the illustrious history of the heavyweight title in the days when Americans reigned supreme and tells the stories of legendary champions such as John L. Sullivan, Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, and Muhammad Ali.
Twenty-four-year-old newspaperman Ray Sargent is a hardened cynic in the ways of the world: he's lost his parents and brothers, served in the Marines in France, survived the deadly flu pandemic of 1918, and written up everything from labor strikes to gambling dens. And he has a way with women-or so he supposes. But he's never met a woman like Marian Newhouse, the beautiful, brilliant reporter with a mysterious past who shows up in Toledo, Ohio, just as the Midwest's "glass city" is getting ready to host the biggest sports event in the world-a heavyweight championship fight between Jack Dempsey and Jess Willard. It's a time when everything seems up for grabs in the United States, when a midsize manufacturing city becomes the locus of national attention, and when a man who thought he had life figured out finds himself surprised by the oldest surprise of all.As a suffocating heat wave descends and Toledo's streets fill with out-of-town visitors, Ray befriends both boxers. On July 4, with the sun beating down on thousands in an open-air arena, a bell rings to settle the issue between Dempsey and Willard-but can Ray win Marian's heart before she marries a man she barely knows?