Jacobs Beach

Kevin Mitchell

ISBN 10: 1605981230 / ISBN 13: 9781605981239

Verlag: Pegasus Books, 2010

Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers G1605981230I4N01

Inhaltsangabe:

New York in the Fifties was the most interesting and most vibrant city in the world. As American culture burst into life from television to beatniks and rock n roll, Marilyn and Elvis, and Cold War paranoia New York was its epicenter. New York gave the world a couple of other things too: one bloody and brutal but the king of sports, the other simply bloody and brutal. The Fifties were boxing's last real heyday. Never again would the sport be so glamorous or so popular. And that's where New York's other gift to the world the Mob came in.Gangsters have been around for boxing's entire history, but this time it was special. Most of the decade's major fights took place at boxing's spiritual home, Madison Square Garden, and most of the deals that made or ruined the lives of the era's many fine fighters were done on a famous strip of pavement across the road from the Garden: Jacobs Beach. And the man ruling that strip of pavement was a charming Italian murderer called Frankie Carbo.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: Kevin Mitchell is the London Observer's Chief sports writer. Kevin lives in London.

Kevin Mitchell is the London Observer's chief sports writer. He is the author of War, Baby, which was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, and the co-author of Frank Bruno's autobiography Frank, which won the Best Autobiography category of the British Sports Book Awards. He lives in London.

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Titel: Jacobs Beach
Verlag: Pegasus Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket