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Brick City Grudge Match

2023-01-17 Sports & Recreation
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Release : 2023-01-17
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Rating : 431/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Brick City Grudge Match by : Rod Honecker

Download or read book Brick City Grudge Match written by Rod Honecker. This book was released on 2023-01-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 10, 1948, the eyes of the sporting world were focused on a minor league ballpark in Newark, New Jersey--the unlikely venue of a much-anticipated rubber match between the two men at the top of boxing's prestigious middleweight division, Tony Zale and Rocky Graziano. They had met in the ring twice before, each winning one bout. In their third fight, Zale, a clever and powerful puncher, hoped to regain his title from Graziano, a knock-out artist six years his junior. This book tells the story of the greatest middleweight trilogy of boxing's Golden Age, a championship battle Newark hoped would catalyze brighter days for a city rife with political corruption and organized crime and grappling with the beginning of deindustrialization.

Ingemar Johansson

2015-12-11 Sports & Recreation
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Release : 2015-12-11
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Rating : 237/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Ingemar Johansson by : Ken Brooks

Download or read book Ingemar Johansson written by Ken Brooks. This book was released on 2015-12-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ingemar Johansson's right hand--dubbed "The Hammer of Thor"--was the most fearsome in boxing, and Johansson's three fights with Floyd Patterson rank among the sport's classic rivalries. Yet most fans know little about the Swedish playboy who won the world heavyweight championship with a shocking third round knockout of Patterson and held it for six days short of a year (1959-1960). During his reign, the raffish "Ingo" hit fashionable nightspots on two continents, romanced Elizabeth Taylor, and refused to kowtow to the mobsters who controlled boxing. This first-ever biography of Johansson chronicles his fistic triumphs as a Goteborg teen prodigy, his humiliating disqualification for "cowardice" at the 1952 Olympics, his storybook romances with Birgit Lundgren and Edna Alsterlund and his post-career life and tragic early dementia.

Good with Their Hands

2002 History
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Release : 2002
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 358/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Good with Their Hands by : Carlo Rotella

Download or read book Good with Their Hands written by Carlo Rotella. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a brilliant study, warm and frequently thrilling, of an inspired combination of subjects. Postindustrial American urban culture has found its great poet-theorist in Carlo Rotella."—William Finnegan, author of Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country "In the hands of others, we have learned much about the process of deindustrialization. Rotella powerfully brings the reader to the core of these socio-economic transitions in a manner that is almost palpable in its ability to connect the reader to any one of his subjects. Rotella held me, taught me, opened my eyes to an appreciation of new ways of seeing. The writing is electric, the broader conceptual framework is rich and complex, and his touch is deft throughout the book."—Nick Salvatore, coauthor of We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber

Deadlock

2009 Fiction
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Release : 2009
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 673/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Deadlock by : Robert Liparulo

Download or read book Deadlock written by Robert Liparulo. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special Forces veteran-turned-billionaire Brendan Page has some dirty not-so-little secrets. He's built an empire on supplying futuristic weapons and highly trained soldiers to armies. Newspaper columnist and single dad John Hutchison is the last defense against Page's high-tech killing machine.

The Arsonists' City

2021 Domestic fiction
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Release : 2021
Genre : Domestic fiction
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Book Rating : 55X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Arsonists' City by : Hala Alyan

Download or read book The Arsonists' City written by Hala Alyan. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Arsonists' City delivers all the pleasures of a good old-fashioned saga, but in Alyan's hands, one family's tale becomes the story of a nation--Lebanon and Syria, yes, but also the United States. It's the kind of book we are lucky to have."--Rumaan Alam A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rendering of how we hold on to the people and places we call home The Nasr family is spread across the globe--Beirut, Brooklyn, Austin, the California desert. A Syrian mother, a Lebanese father, and three American children: all have lived a life of migration. Still, they've always had their ancestral home in Beirut--a constant touchstone--and the complicated, messy family love that binds them. But following his father's recent death, Idris, the family's new patriarch, has decided to sell. The decision brings the family to Beirut, where everyone unites against Idris in a fight to save the house. They all have secrets--lost loves, bitter jealousies, abandoned passions, deep-set shame--that distance has helped smother. But in a city smoldering with the legacy of war, an ongoing flow of refugees, religious tension, and political protest, those secrets ignite, imperiling the fragile ties that hold this family together. In a novel teeming with wisdom, warmth, and characters born of remarkable human insight, award-winning author Hala Alyan shows us again that "fiction is often the best filter for the real world around us" (NPR).

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