Coming Soon - 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.

    Book likely will be released sometime in May 2023. No later than June.

    https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:249acafd-c7aa-3ef4-b1e3-c11bb14c214e
    https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:249acafd-c7aa-3ef4-b1e3-c11bb14c214e
     
    apollack, Mar 28, 2023
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  2. Melankomas

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    Interesting, seems like they're covering all fields. Good to know it isn't just a propaganda book sucking Dempsey off.
     
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  3. James Page

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    Is there a part 1 book?
     
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  4. apollack

    apollack Boxing Addict Full Member

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  5. mcvey

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    Pollack's book are first class,well researched and open-handed.
     
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  6. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    Yes, and it is brilliant!
     
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  7. SwarmingSlugger

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    Dempsey hater much?
     
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  8. Melankomas

    Melankomas Prime Jeffries would demolish a grizzly in 2 Full Member

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    Nope, just a Dempsey realist. The dude might've been a beast but was vastly overrated by the public at the time, which caused his legend to surpass him. In Dempsey's own words: "I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great."

    I just want an unbiased book on him, instead of the propagandized nonsense that's mostly out there.
     
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  9. Boxing GOAT

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    You mean like every boxing book ever written about Jack Johnson and Ali?
     
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  10. Melankomas

    Melankomas Prime Jeffries would demolish a grizzly in 2 Full Member

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    Precisely!
     
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  11. Seamus

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    I got a birthday coming up, Adam. Hurry it up.
     
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  12. Seamus

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    Turn around. Go buy the book. Go buy the Fitzsimmons and Jeffries and most of all the Johnson set. Pollack sets a new bar for studies of the early heavies.
     
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  13. Freddy Benson.

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    Every book? Try Unforgiveable Blackness, Ghosts of Manila or Ali: A Life. Hardly hagiographies.
     
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  14. Melankomas

    Melankomas Prime Jeffries would demolish a grizzly in 2 Full Member

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    Any particular critiques with Unforgivable Blackness? I never bothered reading it since I figured it was a very biased take on Johnson.
     
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  15. Freddy Benson.

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    It's an excellent book. It examines his life as well as the social and historical context of Johnson and the world he lived in. However, it's most definitely not a hagiography. Biased how?
     
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