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Ellis Cashmore has gone beneath the persona of Tyson with intelligent sensitivity. He has pointed us towards the motives in the psyche of an extraordinary figure in the history of sport and analysed why Tyson remains such a figure of fascination to so many people.
John Goodbody, The Times
Ellis Cashmore s book will fascinate and frustrate an unusually wide range of readers. He juxtaposes the biography of Mike Tyson against mini–narratives of other prominent athletes and celebrities, African American leaders, and contemporaneous incidents, allowing biographical narrative to unfold almost seamlessly into analysis and cultural history. In situating Tyson in his times, Cashmore offers an uncompromising critique of late twentieth–century US race relations, as well as presenting a compelling account of an intriguing career and life story.
Douglas Hartmann, University of Minnesota
"His account is a well–written and fascinating attempt to help us understand this. It will undoubtedly appeal to a large readership. It is not a purely academic read, but neither is it a trashy hagiography. As such it deserves a broad audience outside of what is traditional for an ′academic′ book."
Guy Osborn, University of Westminster
Cashmore′s eviscerating analysis of Tyson′s life and the culture in which he grew up, rose to prominence and descended into disgrace provokes the reader into re–thinking the role of one of the most controversial and infamous figures of recent history. Told as an odyssey–style homeward journey to Tyson′s multi–pathological origins in the racially–explosive ghettos of the 1960s, Tyson′s story is part biography, part tragedy and part exposition. His associations with people like Al Sharpton, Don King and Tupac Shakur shaped his life; and events, such as the O J Simpson trial and the Rodney King riots, formed a turbulent background for the Tyson psychodrama.
Over the course of an epic boxing career, Tyson was transformed from the most celebrated athlete on earth to a primal, malevolent hate–figure. Yet, even after being condemned as a brute, Tyson retained a power – a power to captivate. Cashmore reveals that the sources of that power lie as much in us as in Tyson himself.
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