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King Of the World
by David Remnick
David Remnick was a reporter for The Washington Postfor ten years, including four in Moscow. He joined TheNew Yorker as a writer in 1992 and has been the magazine’seditor since 1998. Remnick served as an Olympic Correspondent and Commentator for NBC during the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.
A Flame Of Pure Fire
by Roger Kahn
Jack Dempsey was perfectly suited to the time in which he fought, the time when the United States first felt the throb of its own overwhelming power. For eight years and two months after World War I, Dempsey, with his fierce good looks and matchless dedication to the kill, was heavyweight champion of the world. A Flame of Pure Fire is the extraordinary story of a man and a country growing to maturity in a blaze of strength and exuberance that nearly burned them to ash. Hobo, roughneck, fighter, lover,...
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Barney Ross
by Douglas Century
DOUGLAS CENTURY is the author, with Rick Cowan, of The New York Times best seller and Edgar Award-winner Takedown: The Fall of the Last Mafi a Empire. Publications he has written for include The New York Times, Details, Rolling Stone, and The Guardian. He lives in New York City.
Hurricane
by James S Hirsch
In 1967, the black boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and a young acquaintance, John Artis, were wrongly convicted of triple murder by an all-white jury in Paterson, New Jersey. Over the next decade, Carter gradually amassed convincing evidence of his innocence and the vocal support of celebrities from Bob Dylan to Muhammad Ali. He was freed in 1976 pending a new trial, but he lost his appeal -- to the amazement of many -- and landed back in prison. Carter, bereft, shunned almost all human contact until...
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The Soul Of a Butterfly
by Muhammad; Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali
"During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing. You saw only a part of me. After I retired from boxing my true work began. I have embarked on a journey of love."
So Muhammad Ali begins this spiritual memoir, his description of the values that have shaped and sustained him and that continue to guide his life. In The Soul of a Butterfly the great champion takes readers on a spiritual journey through the seasons of life, from childhood to the present, and... Read more about this item