The Manly Art
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The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America
By Elliott J. GornThe likes of poet Vachel Lindsay and novelist Theodore Dreiser lionized him—Dreiser called him 'a sort of prize fighting J. P. Morgan'—and Ernest Thompson Seton, founder of the Boy Scouts, noted approvingly that he never met a lad who ...
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The Manly Art: Bare-knuckle Prize Fighting in America
By Elliott J. GornRecreates the lives and times of 19th century boxing champions and analyzes the social significance of the violent sport
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The Manly Art: The Lives and Times of the Great Bare-knuckle Champions
By Elliott J. GornThis updated edition of Gorn's highly influential history of the early prize rings features a new afterword, the author's meditation on the ways in which studies of sport, gender, and popular culture have changed in the quarter century ...
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The Manly Art
By Keith G. Laufenberg“Oh, oh yeah, sure, ah-er I'm Billy Kelly, Mister Taylor and I kin fight, like I said.” “Yeah, well I'll tell you what then Billy Kelly, g-wan in the dressin' room there and get in your gym clothes and we'll just see if you can box a ...
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The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America, Updated Edition
By Elliott J. GornElliott J. Gorn's The Manly Art tells the story of boxing's origins and the sport's place in American culture.