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Battling Siki
A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s
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ISBN-13:
9781557288165
Veröffentl:
2006
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.05.2006
Seiten:
400
Autor:
Peter Benson
Gewicht:
735 g
Format:
234x166x35 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Peter Benson is associate professor of English at Fairleigh Dickinson University and the author of Black Orpheus, Transition, and Modern Cultural Awakening in Africa. He has been a Visiting Fulbright Professor at the University of Dakar, University of Nairobi, and Kenyatta University.
Benson's biography, the first on this controversial and misunderstood boxer, tells the fascinating story of the first African to win a world championship in boxing. "Has all the elements of a Shakespearean tragedy set in the Roaring Twenties."--Thomas Hauser, author of "Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times."