Fight of the Century
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Fight of the Century: Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, and the Struggle for Racial Equality
By Thomas R. HietalaLangston Hughes, I Wonder As I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey (New York: Hill and Wang, 1956), 314–315. Hughes labeled Louis “a man for any man to imitate.” Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, ed. Arnold Rampersad (New York: Knopf, ...
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Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
By Dave Eggers, Neil Gaiman, Ann PatchettNixon's attorney general, John N. Mitchell, had famously threatened the Post's owner, Katharine Graham, in a call to reporter Carl Bernstein. “All that crap you're putting in the paper?” said Mitchell, as both Graham and Bernstein later ...
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Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
By Dave Eggers, Neil Gaiman, Ann PatchettForemost among the pirates of Ulysses was the legendary New York pornographer Samuel Roth. A semitragic, almost Dostoevskian figure, widely reviled, often imprisoned, a lifelong Orthodox Jew who wrote the notorious anti- Semitic screed ...
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Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
By Dave Eggers, Neil Gaiman, Ann PatchettThese powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one ...
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Fight of the Century
By Nicholas Allen, Troy-Jeffrey AllenMen are becoming monsters in minutes as fighters are putting their lives on the line in the octagon.Our story follows Rex Punga, a down on his luck farmboy-turned-MMA fighter.
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Fight of the Century: Alice Paul Battles Woodrow Wilson for the Vote
By Barb RosenstockCleverly framed as a boxing match, this book provides a fascinating and compelling look at an important moment in American history.
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Fight of the Century: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling
By Patrick MylerIn Chicago, Louis's wife said it was “bedlam, sheer bedlam.” South Side blacks took over trains and taxis and rode around for free. Others disconnected trolley cars and burned bonfires in the streets. The Chicago Defender gave over most ...
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Fight of the Century
By Barb RosenstockCleverly framed as a boxing match, this book provides a fascinating and compelling look at an important moment in American history.
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Fight of the Century: Joe Louis Vs. Max Schmeling
By Patrick MylerIn Fight of the Century Myler tells the story of two decent men, drawn together by boxing and divided by the cruel demands of competing nations.