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Floyd Patterson: A Boxer and a Gentleman - Couverture souple

Levy, Alan H.

 
9780786439508: Floyd Patterson: A Boxer and a Gentleman
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0786439505 ISBN 13 : 9780786439508
Editeur : McFarland & Co Inc, 2008

Synopsis

Floyd Patterson delivered a number of knockout punches during his Hall of Fame career, but it might have been the fights he won outside the ring that made him great. Born in 1935, he overcame poverty and prejudice to become the youngest world heavyweight champion in history--and he would later become the first man to regain the crown after losing it. Muhammad Ali called Patterson the most skillful fighter he ever faced.

This first complete biography of the former heavyweight champion covers Patterson's meteoric rise as a boxer while giving equal attention to his life away from sport, including his work as a civil rights activist in the 1960s. Joining Ali and Joe Frazier as boxers who used their celebrity to bring attention to social issues, he became an icon of the movement.

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À propos de l'auteur

Alan H. Levy is a professor of American history at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania. In addition to his writings about sports (football, boxing, baseball), he is the author of several books on American music, including a biography of the noted composer Edward MacDowell.

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Éditeur
McFarland & Co Inc
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0786439505
ISBN 13 
9780786439508
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
297
Coordonnées du fabricant
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