| Battling Siki: A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s Contributor(s): Benson, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 1557288887 ISBN-13: 9781557288882 Publisher: University of Arkansas Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2008 Annotation: Battling Siki (1887-1925) was once one of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world and was written about by a host of great writers, including George Bernard Shaw, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Janet Flanner, and Ernest Hemingway. Peter Benson's lively biography of the first African to win a world championship in boxing delves into the complex world of sports, race, colonialism, and the cult of personality in the early twentieth century. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1.05" H x 6.72" W x 8.76" (1.19 lbs) 360 pages |