[PDF.79dz] The Longest Fight: In the Ring with Joe Gans, Boxing's First African American Champion

The Longest Fight: In the Ring with Joe Gans, Boxing's First African American Champion

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 | #1324570 in Books |  2012-06-19 |  2012-06-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.51 x.92 x5.96l,.85 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Fine Bio & An Expert Rendering of the first “Fight Of The Century’|By mojo_navigator|Of the two Gans biographies currently available, this is by far the superior tome and one that I would recommend unreservedly.

The Longest Fight uses the first Gans-Nelson bout as its centrepiece to tell the story of Joe Gans, the first African-American world boxing champ| |A gem of a book . . . In lean prose, Gildea gives us a blow-by-blow account of Gans's career. He pivots from describing the fight to exploring his subject's life to examining the racism of the age and the contradictions of 'sportsmanship' that belittled blacks

Many people came to Goldfield, Nevada, America's last gold-rush town, to seek their fortune. However, on a searing summer day in September 1906, they came not to strike it rich but to watch what would become the longest boxing match of the twentieth century--between Joe Gans, the first African American boxing champion, and "Battling" Nelson, a vicious and dirty brawler. It was a match billed as the battle of the races.

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You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Longest Fight: In the Ring with Joe Gans, Boxing's First African American Champion   |  William Gildea. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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