The Bittersweet Science: racism, racketeering and the political economy of boxing

by Gerald Horne

Book Overview

Based upon exhaustive research in court records, memoirs, the files of the New York State Athletic Commissions and related bodies from Nevada to New Jersey - not to mention the gangster venues from garish Las Vegas to venal South Philadelphia, this pioneering work tells the untold story of the grimy intersection of racism and racketeering in boxing. Revealing previously unrecorded stories of punchers from Jack Johnson to Joe Louis to Sugar Ray...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0717808297
• ISBN13: 9780717808298
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: International Publishers
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"