(Read free ebook) The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America
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| #79666 in Books | Cornell University Press | 2010-04-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.10 x.80 x6.00l,1.00 | File Name: 0801476089 | 336 pages |
"It didn't occur to me until fairly late in the work that I was writing a book about the beginnings of a national celebrity culture. By 1860, a few boxers had become heroes to working-class men, and big fights drew considerable newspaper coverage, most of it quite negative since the whole enterprise was illegal. But a generation later, toward the end of the century, the great John L. Sullivan of Boston had become the nation's first true sports celebrity, an American ...
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