{"product_id":"at-the-fights-american-writers-on-boxing-a-library-of-america-special-publication-9781598530926","title":"At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing: A Library of America Special Publication","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): George Kimball | John Schulian | Colum McCann\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Library of America\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Library of America\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Boxing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of essays by James Baldwin, Norman Mailer, and other beloved American writers on the primal contest in the boxing ring--and the crazy carnival world outside it\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From neighborhood gyms and smoke-filled arenas to star-studded casinos and exotic locales, American writers have chronicled unforgettable stories about determination and dissipation, about great champions and punch-drunk has-beens, about colorful entourages and outrageous promoters, and, inevitably along the way, about race, class, and violence in America. Like baseball, boxing has a vivid culture and language all its own, one that has proven irresistible to career journalists and literary writers alike. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Library of America presents a gritty and glittering anthology of a century of the very best writing and reportage about the fights. Here is Jack London on the immortal Jack Johnson; H. L. Mencken and Irvin S. Cobb on Jack Dempsey vs. Georges Carpentier, dubbed \"The Fight of the Century\"; Richard Wright on Joe Louis's historic victory over Max Schmeling; A. J. Liebling's brilliantly comic portrait of a manager who really identifies with his fighter; Jimmy Cannon on the inimitable Archie Moore; James Baldwin and Gay Talese on the haunted Floyd Patterson; George Plimpton on Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X; Norman Mailer on the \"Rumble in the Jungle\"; Mark Kram on the \"Thrilla in Manila\"; Pete Hamill on legendary trainer and manager Cus D'Amato; Mark Kriegel on Oscar de la Hoya; and David Remnick and Joyce Carol Oates on Mike Tyson. National Book Award-winning novelist Colum McCann (\u003ci\u003eLet the Great World Spin\u003c\/i\u003e) weighs in with a foreword.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46317698187415,"sku":"9781598530926","price":3408.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781598530926.webp?v=1767711427","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/at-the-fights-american-writers-on-boxing-a-library-of-america-special-publication-9781598530926","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}