I've put this in newer posts. Since then I've read The fighting blacksmith Lanky Bob ( didnt finish ) Prizefighter I liked Prizefighter the best. Smooth read. Lanky Bob is very informative but it's also very technical not enjoyable for my taste but I'll eventually get through it. I love the boxing bio's and autobio's. Got shelves of them old and new.
What books have you written? I’m curious who else have you covered I’m bumping a very old thread to ask this is apologise.
Adam has written excellently received biographies of: Sulivan Corbett Fitzsimmons Jeffries Hart Burns Johnson I have the Fitz,Jeffries, and Johnson[2 vols]ones, there are multiple sources in them for all the fights and they are very even-handed in their treatment of their subjects, and exhaustively researched. Highly recommended. You can find them on Amazon. The Fitzsimmons book by Gilbert Odd," The Fighting Blacksmith," is good on personal detail imo. Randy Roberts bio's on Johnson and Louis are good, but no author I've read puts in the research on the champs like Adam Pollack. Clay Moyle's book on Sam Langford is great . Anything by Springs Toledo is too ,his trilogy; In The Cheap Seats,Murderers Row,The Gods Of War are terrific and his short book on Harry Greb, Smoke Stack Lightning is a good read. Steve Crompton 's Harry Greb book has excellent reviews,but I've yet to read it. George Kimball's stuff is great. Hugh McIllvanney A J Leibling W C Heinz Geoffrey C Ward's book on Johnson, Invisible Blackness , too, but short on primary sources. Avoid The Killings of Stanley Ketchel, by James Carlos Blake, its crap. Tommy Burns Canada's Unknown Champ by Jim McCaffrey, total rubbish.