I'm terribly gutted about the expense of pollack's books. I mean I'll still buy them but £30 on a book is quite steep. I just hope they're worth it!
This might be a daft question, but are you checking the sponsored links on amazon mate? Worth taking a look if you have'nt. I was after the Joe Gans and black boxing champions book the other month and was stunned by the price. Unfortunately i couldn't find a cheaper copy anywhere. Good luck.
This content is protected Iron Mike collects the best writing on the tumultuous fifteen-year career of the most reviled and idolized athlete in the world, Michael Gerard Tyson. Since becoming, at age nineteen, the youngest heavyweight champion in history, Tyson's dramatic rise, fall, and continuing struggle has provoked more passionate writing, both in and out of the sports pages, than that of any other boxer since Muhammad Ali. Iron Mike is about more than boxing. Like no other athlete, Mike Tyson is at the nexus of America's cultural anxieties about race, class, masculinity, violence, and celebrity; like no other athlete his story of high drama and low comedy inspires writers to wrestle with these themes, with Tyson often no more than the occasion for the writer's own preoccupations. And Tyson has provided many such occasions: his rise to the Undisputed World Heavyweight Championship at age twenty-one; his rocky marriage to Robin Givens; his controversial conviction for the **** of Desiree Washington; his return to boxing and reclamation of the WBC and WBA belts; his biting of Evander Holyfield. Iron Mike is a kaleidoscopic portrait of a man who, for better and worse, is one of the most recognizable, popular, and defining icons of our time. The book includes selections from Joyce Carol Oates, Pete Hamill, Jose Torres, Pete Dexter, Phil Berger, Christopher Hitchens, Robert Lipsyte, Dave Anderson, Jonathan Yardley, Richard Rodriguez, Katherine Dunn, Donald Mcrae, William Plummer, David Remnick, Keith Botsworth, and others. A superb book.
Some boxing books can be dear but rarely 30 to 40 pounds. One published McFarland produces brillianrt books but they are quite dear. Have all of Adam Pollack's books and again not cheap but worth every cent as they really are the best books you can find on the great heavyweight champions. If you want cheaper boxing books, try www.betterworld.com they are very good, not to mention ebay.
Books downunder are now virtually out of the average persons ability to buy, so the Darcy book by Fitzsimmons was the last book I bought,.. luckily for me that was a small book. I have just been reading Pierce Egan's "Boxiana",.... What a book, this is a guy who saw Mendoza, Cribb, Jackson and Humphries. being apparently the first ever attemt at writing a sports history.... that book may be a tough read for those not familiar with terms like "The Fancy",.. et al.... But I highly recommend it.
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agree. the one by peter heller, a fantasic book on mike tyson. one of the best boxing books ive ever read. im after an updated edition, if there is one, the book ive got ends with tysons first fight against frank bruno. i found the book in a charity shop for £1.50. one man's junk, is another man's treasure. too true.
I found it very straight-forward and from most accounts, an honest and objective account. A lot of Tyson books out there focus way too much on the circus events of his post-prison career. I honestly couldn't care any possibly less about that. It's the time period through 1991 that I'm interested in. A lot of people like to slice that between pre and post-Rooney, but really, Mike was still a beast and very signifcant up until his conviction.
This content is protected Heavy Justice is the inside story of one of the great courtroom battles of our time. Gregory Garrison, the special prosecutor in the case, and Randy Roberts, historian and eminent boxing scholar, recount the trial that put heavyweight champion Mike Tyson behind bars. With all the drama, verve, and procedural detail of a novel by John Grisham or Scott Turow, this is also a highly topical morality play touching on all the issues of sex, race, celebrity, and justice that now so perplex our society. When he first heard about the Tyson case, Greg Garrison wanted nothing to do with it. Date ****? Always tough to prove. And one of the few facts already reported was that the young woman making the accusation had been in the defendant's hotel room at two o'clock in the morning. This case was dead on arrival, except that when Desiree Washington told her story, Garrison believed her. So drawing on this simple trust, and inspired by Desiree's courage and conviction, he accepted the challenge of this "unwinnable" case, stepping into the ring against not only Mike Tyson, multimillionaire sports celebrity and hero to millions, and Don King, cheerleader, but also the Washington law firm of Williams & Connolly, perhaps the slickest and most powerful defense counsel money could buy. Originally published in 1994, Heavy Justice brings together the worlds of big-time sports, lowlife sleaze, painstaking police work, and the lofty realms of Harvard's Alan Dershowitz to offer us a thoroughly absorbing account of one of the century's most important legal cases. Anyone read this?
I don't care what anyone says, any defense lawyer who puts Mike Tyson on the stand should have his head examined. Ugh.