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Gangsters have been around boxing for ever. When boxing took hold in Madison Square Garden just after the First World War, a new wave of criminals moved in: the Mob. It was then that Prohibition gave street legitimacy to organised crime right across America; and by the time Joe Louis arrived to breathe excitement through a country ravaged by the Great Depression, the wise guys were firmly entrenched at ringside. Mike Jacobs, the grizzled boss of boxing at the Garden for nearly twenty years, made the Brown Bomber the biggest sports star in the world, and a string of romantic writers ensured this would be remembered as the fight game's golden age. They mingled with underworld heavies along a strip of New York pavement near the Garden known only as Jacobs Beach.
Kevin Mitchell's gripping book is the unsanitised story of those times and that place, of Rat Pack cool and the fading of the Mob's peculiar glamour, brilliantly told through the eyes of the men who were there.
Kevin Mitchell's gripping book is the unsanitised story of those times and that place, of Rat Pack cool and the fading of the Mob's peculiar glamour, brilliantly told through the eyes of the men who were there.
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"As punchy as the matches. Wonderfully evocative" (Sunday Telegraph)
"A tour de force of reportage and research by an author who really knows his stuff" (Independent on Sunday)
"Mitchell tells a vivid, gripping and very different fairytale of New York with verve and skill" (Observer)
"This is Mitchell's natural territory ... he is the connoisseur of both the dark and glorious sides of the ring game" (Daily Telegraph)
"A cigar-chomping read" (Wall Street Journal)
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"A tour de force of reportage and research by an author who really knows his stuff" (Independent on Sunday)
"Mitchell tells a vivid, gripping and very different fairytale of New York with verve and skill" (Observer)
"This is Mitchell's natural territory ... he is the connoisseur of both the dark and glorious sides of the ring game" (Daily Telegraph)
"A cigar-chomping read" (Wall Street Journal)
Nominated for the top Sports Book awards, this is the gripping tale of boxing's golden age when the mob held as much sway in the ring as the fighters, from award-winning writer, Kevin Mitchell
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- EditoreYellow Jersey
- Data di pubblicazione2011
- ISBN 10 0224075098
- ISBN 13 9780224075091
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine320
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Descrizione libro Condizione: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. They mingled with underworld heavies along a strip of New York pavement near the Garden known only as Jacobs Beach. Kevin Mitchell s gripping book is the unsanitised story of those times and that place, of Rat Pack cool and the fading of the Mob s peculia. Codice articolo 594437390
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