| The Great White Hope Contributor(s): Sackler, Howard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0573609608 ISBN-13: 9780573609602 Publisher: Concord Theatricals OUR PRICE: $14.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | American - African American - Performing Arts | Theater - General |
| Dewey: 812.54 |
| Physical Information: 0.29" H x 5" W x 8" (0.31 lbs) 136 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Tragic Drama / Characters: 8 male, 3 female, extras w/doubling Winner of Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award "A great part a tragic hero, cheated, degraded, and at last brutally beaten. Mr. Sackler has used his hero, a figure based on the first Black heavyweight champion of the world, Jack Johnson (played by James Earl Jones), as a symbol in part of Black aspiration...Has an epic scope and range...It picks up the Johnson story soon after the Australian day in 1908 when Johnson whipped Tommy B |