Ebook: At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing

Features literary excerpts and articles written by sportswriters and authors that celebrate one hundred years of American boxing.;Johnson vs. Jeffries / Jack London -- Cobb fights it over again / Irvin S. Cobb -- Dempsey vs. Carpentier / H.L. Mencken -- The orthodox champion / Heywood Broun -- My fights with Jack Dempsey / Gene Tunney -- Brown bomber / Sherwood Anderson -- Pity the poor giant / Paul Gallico -- Louis knocks out Schmeling / Bob Considine -- High tide in Harlem: Joe Louis as a symbol of freedom / Richard Wright -- Brownsville bum / W.C. Heinz -- Night for Joe Louis / Red Smith -- Down great purple valleys / John Lardner -- As it was in the long ago / Frank Graham -- Kearns by a knockout ; Ahab and nemesis / A.J. Liebling -- Archie / Jimmy Cannon -- The fight: Patterson vs. Liston / James Baldwin -- Floyd Patterson / Gay Talese -- from James Norris and the decline of boxing / Barney Nagler -- The champ and the chump / Murray Kempton -- Miami notebook: Cassius Clay and Malcolm X / George Plimpton -- Beethoven to boxing / Larry Merchant -- Amen to Sonny / Joe Flaherty -- Muhammad Ali then and now / Dick Schaap -- from The fight / Norman Mailer -- Pride of the tiger / Robert Lipsyte -- "Lawdy, lawdy, he's great" / Mark Kram -- Nowhere to run / John Schulian -- Roberto Duran's New York state of mind / Vic Ziegel -- Sweeter than sugar / Leonard Gardner -- The fight (the king is dead) ; from Moving pictures / Budd Schulberg -- Then all the joy turned to sorrow / Ralph Wiley -- Eight minutes of fury / Pat Putnam -- Up the stairs with Cus D'Amato / Pete Hamill -- from Paper trails / Pete Dexter -- from The black lights / Thomas Hauser -- Never say never: Ray Mancini's last fight / Bill Barich -- Leonard-Hagler: the fight and its aftermath / George Kimball -- Ringworld / Gerald Early -- Still hungry after all these years / Richard Hoffer -- Donfire of the vanities / Mike Lupica -- Rape and the boxing ring / Joyce Carol Oates -- My friend, my teacher / Jerry Izenberg -- "The fight's over, Joe" / William Nack -- The great (almost) white hope / Mark Kriegel -- Kid Dynamite blows up: Mike Tyson / David Remnick -- The knockout: Lucia Rijker / Katherine Dunn -- from Compass points: how I lived / Edward Hoagland -- Champion at twilight / Carlo Rotella.