From Jack London to Joyce Carol Oates, The Hurt Business is the ultimate boxing book covering a century of the greatest fighter and the writers who have followed 'the sweet science'.
Beginning with Jack London's account of the 1910 championship bout between Jack Johnson and James Jeffries (for which the Call of the Wildman called for and coined the term "The Great White Hope"), and ending with Carlo Rotella's 2002 homage to Larry Holmes ("Champion at Twilight"), The Hurt Business is a near century's worth of rip-roaring reveal. Some of it comes ringside, like Norman Mailer et; some of it comes from the gym, like Pete Hamill's "Up the Stairs with Cus D'Amato"; and some of it comes from so far behind the scenes you feel as if you've been eavesdropping - Thomas Hauser's excerpt from The Black Lights.
For fans of Norman Mailer's The Fight or George Kimball's Four Kings: Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran and the Last Great Era of Boxing, The Hurt Business belongs on the shelves of any fan of boxing or sublime sports writing.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface to the paperback edition
Foreword, by Colum McCann
Disarming Candor, an Introduction by George Kimball
The Fist and the Pen, an Introduction by John Schulian
JACK LONDON: Johnson vs. Jeffries
IRVIN S. COBB: Cobb Fights It Over Again
H. L. MENCKEN: Dempsey vs. Carpentier
HEYWOOD BROUN: The Orthodox Champion
GENE TUNNEY: My Fights with Jack Dempsey
SHERWOOD ANDERSON: Brown Bomber
PAUL GALLICO: Pity the Poor Giant
BOB CONSIDINE: Louis Knocks Out Schmeling
RICHARD WRIGHT: High Tide in Harlem: Joe Louis as a Symbol of Freedom
W. C. HEINZ: Brownsville Bum
RED SMITH; Night for Joe Louis
JOHN LARDNER: Down Great Purple Valleys
FRANK GRAHAM: As It Was in the Long Ago
A. J. LIEBLING: Kearns by a Knockout, Ahab and Nemesis
JIMMY CANNON: Archie
JAMES BALDWIN: The Fight: Patterson vs. Liston
GAY TALESE: Floyd Patterson
BARNEY NAGLER: from James Norris and the Decline of Boxing
MURRAY KEMPTON: The Champ and the Chump
GEORGE PLIMPTON: Miami Notebook: Cassius Clay and Malcolm X
LARRY MERCHANT: Beethoven to Boxing
JOE FLAHERTY: Amen to Sonny
DICK SCHAAP: Muhammad Ali Then and Now
NORMAN MAILER: from The Fight
ROBERT LIPSYTE: Pride of the Tiger
MARK KRAM: “Lawdy, Lawdy, He’s Great”
JOHN SCHULIAN: Nowhere to Run
VIC ZIEGEL: Roberto Duran’s New York State of Mind
LEONARD GARDNER: Sweeter than Sugar
BUDD SCHULBERGThe Fight (The King Is Dead), from Moving Pictures
RALPH WILEY: Then All the Joy Turned to Sorrow
PAT PUTNAM: Eight Minutes of Fury
PETE HAMILL: Up the Stairs with Cus D’Amato
PETE DEXTER: from Paper Trails
THOMAS HAUSER: from The Black Lights
BILL BARICH: Never Say Never: Ray Mancini’s Last Fight
GEORGE KIMBALL: Leonard–Hagler: The Fight and Its Aftermath
GERALD EARLY: Ringworld
RICHARD HOFFER: Still Hungry After All These Years
MIKE LUPICA: Donfire of the Vanities
JOYCE CAROL OATES: Rape and the Boxing Ring
JERRY IZENBERG: My Friend, My Teacher
WILLIAM NACK: “The Fight’s Over, Joe
MARK KRIEGEL: The Great (Almost) White Hope
DAVID REMNICK: Kid Dynamite Blows Up: Mike Tyson
KATHERINE DUNN: The Knockout: Lucia Rijker
EDWARD HOAGLAND: from Compass Points: How I Lived
CARLO ROTELLA: Champion at Twilight
SOURCES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
