The Great White Hope

By Howard Sackler

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0573609608
• ISBN13: 9780573609602
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Concord Theatricals
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"