Now Available! - In the Ring With Jack Dempsey - Part II: 1919 - 1923

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  1. apollack

    apollack Boxing Addict Full Member

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    In the Ring With Jack Dempsey - Part II: 1919 - 1923, contains descriptions of Jack Dempsey's successful title defenses (including pre-fight hype, training and sparring, predictions, pre- and post-fight analysis); discussion of his opponents and their careers (Billy Miske, Bill Brennan, Georges Carpentier, Tom Gibbons, and Luis Firpo); economics and negotiations; controversies; legal, political, and racial obstacles; Harry Wills and the color line; Harry Greb, Gene Tunney, Jack Kearns, Tex Rickard and boxing's first million-dollar gate(s); criminal and civil cases; Dempsey's personal life, and much more. Hundreds of rare photos are included. 819 pages in this book alone, based on primary sources, continuing the three-part series of the most thorough books ever written on Jack Dempsey's life and career.

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/194978307...02434&sprefix=adam+j.+pollack,aps,558&sr=8-13
     
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    Well worth a pin!
     
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    Thank you! You came right in on your last forecasted deadline. Wouldn’t have mattered if you didn’t but that’s amazing discipline and work ethic.
     
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    Just ordered mine!
     
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    robert ungurean Богдан Philadelphia Full Member

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    Top of my must have list
     
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    he grant Historian/Film Maker

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    Ordered and very much looking forward to it ... have to give A Pollack serious respect ... in addition to his day job he has managed to put out a terrific body of work over ... in the past twelve or thirteen years maybe twelve books , an exceptional accomplishment and a hell of a legacy .. they are far and away the best of their kind and he does it all with no name calling, no bravado, just effective hard work. Kudos to him and to us for being able to profit from his labor that are without question labors of love.
     
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  7. guilalah

    guilalah Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Will order (just as soon as my credit card gets out of rehab .....)!!!!!
     
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  8. AntonioMartin1

    AntonioMartin1 Jeanette Full Member

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    Hey Pollack! You used to send me your books when I was a boxing writer at ringsidereport.com, I even have the James Jeffries edition signed by you personally to me!

    Glad to see you're doing what you do! I cant wait to see the Alexander Usik edition out!

    God bless you, my ringsidereport.com times friend!!
     
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    Pugguy Ingo, The Thinking Man’s GOAT Full Member

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    All my books are signed also…”To me from my best pal Adam”. Should be worth quite a bit in the next few decades.
     
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    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Coming Soon:

    Out of the Ring with Jack Dempsey, Part III: Sept. 15, 1923-Sept. 22, 1926 — The story of those years Dempsey didn’t fight!
     
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    Pugguy Ingo, The Thinking Man’s GOAT Full Member

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    Suffice to say, Adam will meticulously sift through all available resources to provide a broad range of following day movie reviews so that we, the readers, can decide for ourselves as to just how good an actor Dempsey really was.

    Currently, I have Jack in my ATG top 10 boxers come actors list. However, the contents of this upcoming book might give me cause to move Jack up or down from where I currently have him ranked.
     
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    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    In all seriousness, it might be the best edition of the series as I’m guessing there’s a lot of stuff to unpack that hasn’t been widely reported before.
     
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    jdempsey85 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Its so big i have over a months wait for Amazon to ship this over the ocean
     
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    guilalah Well-Known Member Full Member

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    "Sept. 15, 1923-Sept. 22, 1926"
    Oh, I hope/suspect this means there's a In the Ring with Gene Tunney being contemplated!
     
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    I will definitely buy this ,vol 1 was terrific!
     
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