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Rocky Marciano
This is a book about the life, career, and impact of Rocky Marciano, the legendary heavyweight boxing champion who also stands as a powerful symbol of his times (the early 1950s, or "the Age of Simplicity").
In Black And White
WINNER OF THE 2002 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE. In 1936 athlete Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics and, two years later, boxer Joe Louis won a crushing victory to become heavyweight champion of the world. Despite their fame and success, both men would find themselves barred from certain hotels and would have to eat outside restaurants because of the colour of their skin. However. by their example, they gave hope to millions of black people around the world as they became the first black superstars. Donald McRae's award-winning dual biography is a brilliant portrait of the two men, who became close friends despite their very different career paths: within days of Olympic glory, Owens was banned from competing again, and was forced to spend his days racing against horses to earn a living before becoming a spokesman for the sporting ideal. Meanwhile Louis won and lost a fortune, eventually battling with drug addiction and mental illness. McRae's vivid account of their lives away from the public eye, and the era in which they lived, is compelling and tragic.
Congressional Record
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
The Boxing Film
As one of popular culture’s most popular arenas, sports are often the subject of cinematic storytelling. But boxing films are special. There are more movies about boxing, by a healthy margin, than any other sport, and boxing accompanied and aided the medium’s late nineteenth-century emergence as a popular mass entertainment. Many of cinema’s most celebrated directors—from Oscar Micheaux to Martin Scorsese—made boxing films. And while the production of other types of sports movies generally corresponds with the current popularity of their subject, boxing films continue to be made regularly even after the sport has wilted from its once-prominent position in the sports hierarchy of the United States. From Edison’s Leonard-Cushing Fight to The Joe Louis Story, Rocky, and beyond, this book explores why boxing has so consistently fascinated cinema and popular media culture by tracing how boxing movies inform the sport’s meanings and uses from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century.
The First Black Boxing Champions
This volume presents fifteen chapters of biography of African American and black champions and challengers of the early prize ring. They range from Tom Molineaux, a slave who won freedom and fame in the ring in the early 1800s; to Joe Gans, the first African American world champion; to the flamboyant Jack Johnson, deemed such a threat to white society that film of his defeat of former champion and "Great White Hope" Jim Jeffries was banned across much of the country. Photographs, period drawings, cartoons, and fight posters enhance the biographies. Round-by-round coverage of select historic fights is included, as is a foreword by Hall-of-Fame boxing announcer Al Bernstein.
Fight Or Die
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Baltimore's Boxing Legacy
The boxing history of Baltimore dates back over a century. Over that time the Monumental City has produced seven world champions and numerous top contenders. Joe Gans, the first Baltimorean and African-American ever to win a world title, in 1902, learned his boxing science in the city, earning him the title of "The Old Master" while he shucked oysters on Broadway. Baltimore's Boxing Legacy: 1893 to 2003 chronicles the evolution of fistiana from venues such as the Eureka Athletic Club, Gayety Theatre, Lyric Theatre, Carlin's Park, Baltimore Coliseum, Oriole Park, Steelworkers' Hall, to the Civic Center. It is a tale of ethnicity and race, of color barriers broken, and near-champions and contenders remembered. The likes of Johnny Kid Williams, the Dundee brothers Joe and Vince, Benny Schwartz, Jack Portney, Harry Jeffra, Red Burman, Joe Poodles Sr., Mack Lewis, Vincent Pettway, Hasim Rahman, and many more are showcased in addition to trainers, managers, matchmakers, and promoters.
Kabut Cinta Tanah Selebes
Tulisan yang mungkin dianggap kaum sastrawi atau sastrawan tidak berkualitas ini tentu tidaklah layak untuk dijadikan standarisasi bacaan bermutu bagi semua khalayak umum yang ada di penjuru Negeri ini, ya memang benar dan akupun mengakui, karena tulisan ini hanyalah curahan perasaan hati yang terpendam dalam sukma yang terus bergelora dalam dada dan harus diungkapkan dengan kata-kata agar tidak menyesakkan jiwa. Rasa cinta yang teramat dalam terhadap suatu tempat yang pernah aku singgahi dalam perjalanan hidup ini hingga akupun harus mengabadikannya melalui tulisan ini, apa lagi cerita itu baru pertama kali aku dapatkan selama aku hidup, sangat rugi dan bodoh rasanya bila momen yang indah i...
Daya Tari
Kumpulan tulisan para Koreografer muda tari kontemporer Indonesia dari lingkaran Paradance Festival di Jogja. Di dalamnya, mereka bertutur tentang sejarah dan dinamika pertautan diri perjalanan hidup mereka terhadap dunia tari kontemporer dan kekaryaan mereka. Buku ini cukup pas untuk melihat pertumbuhan dan perkembangan tari kontemporer saat ini dan menjadi media refleksi para koreografer muda ini juga mereka yang tidak ada dalam buku ini. Penerbit Garudhawaca
