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A study of the two boxing competitions between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling, in 1936 and 1938, examines the global significance of the sporting events in terms of a world on the brink of war, tracing the lives and careers of both boxers, as well as the cultural and societal divisions they came to represent. 50,000 first printing.
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“Absorbing. . . . Fascinating. . . . Margolick describes all this so vividly that you almost feel you were there sharing in the joy of sweet revenge.” –Ian Buruma, The New York Review of Books
“Even if you've never seen a boxing match, Beyond Glory is an irresistible read. For fans it is indispensable. . . . Over the last 150-odd pages my pulse raced; by the book's end I felt as if my ears were ringing with the roar that swept through Yankee Stadium bleachers on the night of their rematch.” –Allen Barra, Los Angeles Times Book Review
“A valuable addition to a growing library of books on sports and culture. . . . Beyond Glory is historical reportage, a heavyweight of a book that is likely to be the definitive chronicle of its subject.”– Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review
“A fascinating look at a historical era through the prism of sports.” –Marta Salij, The Detroit Free Press
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“Even if you've never seen a boxing match, Beyond Glory is an irresistible read. For fans it is indispensable. . . . Over the last 150-odd pages my pulse raced; by the book's end I felt as if my ears were ringing with the roar that swept through Yankee Stadium bleachers on the night of their rematch.” –Allen Barra, Los Angeles Times Book Review
“A valuable addition to a growing library of books on sports and culture. . . . Beyond Glory is historical reportage, a heavyweight of a book that is likely to be the definitive chronicle of its subject.”– Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review
“A fascinating look at a historical era through the prism of sports.” –Marta Salij, The Detroit Free Press
From the Trade Paperback edition.
David Margolick is a longtime contributing editor at Vanity Fair, where he writes about culture, the media, and politics. He served as national legal affairs editor at The New York Times, where he wrote the weekly At the Bar column for seven years. He is the author most recently of Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song. This is his fourth book. He lives in New York City.
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- EditoreAlfred a Knopf Inc
- Data di pubblicazione2005
- ISBN 10 0375411925
- ISBN 13 9780375411922
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine423
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. Illustrated w/ 24 pages of photographs (illustratore). Stated First Edition. BRILLIANT: RIVITING: MASTERFUL: DRAMATIC: NEW: Stated First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2005) First Printing: NEW mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners w/ orig. $26.95 pub. price at top right inside front flyleaf, NEW cover w/ library-durable black linen wrapping spine & extending 1.50" onto front & back panels handsomely-covered in sky-blue paper, IMMACULATE text-block exterior w/ smooth-cut top & bottom edges & cut-page-style side-edging, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & pale-blue-&-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, IMPECCABLE white card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Elektra on EXCELLENT archival paper * 6.50" x 9.50" x 1.52", 0.92 kg, 423 pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: Nothing in the annals of sports has aroused more passion than the heavyweight fights in New York in 1936 & 1938 between Joe Louis & Max Schmeling: bouts that symbolized & galvanized the hopes, hatreds, & fears of a world moving toward total war. David Margolick takes us into the careers of both men. We see Louis in his boyhood & amateur days in Detroit & Chicago, & the blossoming of his boxing genius. We see him, already a near-mythical figure, taking New York by storm in the 1930s, fighting before record crowds, the savior of a sport that had fallen into decline & a long sought after symbol of redemption for black America after the scandalous reign of Jack Johnson two decades earlier. And we witness how w/ talent, a gentle personality, & shrewd management, Louis managed to trump the brutal racism directed at him & came to dominate what had been primarily a white man?s sport, becoming a hero of unprecedented power & influence in black America. Schmeling, we learn, was a kind of chameleon, a cultural icon in Weimar Germany who seamlessly, disconcertingly, maintained his privileged status after the Nazi takeover. He pulled off a remarkable feat, relying on a Jewish manager & a Jewish promoter in New York while being extolled at home as a model of "racial superiority". Margolick meticulously examines all the complex ties that developed between Schmeling & the Nazis, shattering the myth that they frowned upon him before he upset Louis in 1936?he was a ten-to-one underdog?& ostracized him after losing to Louis two years later. We see the extraordinary buildup to the 1938 rematch--the worsening international tensions seemingly raising the stakes--in which Louis would need only 124 seconds to defeat Schmeling, while radio allowed the whole world to listen. Margolick vividly captures the outpouring of emotion that the 2 fighters aroused--in the white South, in the black & Jewish communities in the United States, in Germany, everywhere--& makes clear the cultural & social divisions the two men came to represent as the threat posed by the Nazis became increasingly clear, & as America began to feel the effects of a nascent civil rights movement. Schmeling?s postwar success in business & Louis's sad decline add a poignant coda. A book at once about sports & about a pivotal moment in 20th-century history, "Beyond Glory" pulses with energy from first to last. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "In this RIVETING book, David Margolick has done a MASTERFUL job of combining a VIVID description of two truly DRAMATIC events--the Joe Lewis-Max Schelling matches--w/ an overview of the world in which they occurred: in this case, a world rushing to war." -Robert A. Caro * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: DAVID MARGOLICK is a longtime contributing editor at Vanity Fair, where he writes about culture, the media, & politics. He served as national legal affairs editor at The NYT, where he wrote the weekly "At the Bar" column for 7 years. He is the author most recently of "Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song". This is his 4th book. He lives in New York City. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps & packages this fine book w/ our greatest care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the United States & its territories or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below cost fee. Codice articolo 009954
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