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Battling Siki: A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s
Peter Benson
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| #2306662 in Books | 2008-07-01 | 2008-07-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.76 x1.05 x6.72l,1.19 | File type: PDF | 360 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A real surprise !|By D. Stover|Very well done ! I actually wasn't expecting this to be as good as it turned out to be . The author spent a great deal of time researching this boxers past and the entire period of the 1920's on more than one continent . The book is quite long, and I couldn't wait to pick it up every evening to read . Excellently written.|0 of 0 people found||
No man ever came out of Africa who had a more dramatic life or had a more tragic ending.” Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, at Siki’s funeral That extraordinary Sengalese.” Henry Miller, from Plexus Ever since colonialism h
Battling Siki (18871925) was once one of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world and was written about by a host of great writers, including George Bernard Shaw, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Janet Flanner, and Ernest Hemingway. Peter Benson’s lively biography of the first African to win a world championship in boxing delves into the complex world of sports, race, colonialism, and the cult of personality in the early twentieth century.
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Battling Siki: A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s | Peter Benson. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
