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Battling Siki : A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s (Paperback)

Name: Battling Siki : A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s (Paperback)
Brand: Peter Benson
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Battling Siki (1887–1925) was once one of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world and was written about by a host of great writers, including George Bernard Shaw, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Janet Flanner, and Ernest Hemingway. Peter Benson’s lively biography of the first African to win a world championship in boxing delves into the complex world of sports, race, colonialism, and the cult of personality in the early twentieth century.

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Genre
Biography & Memoirs
Publication date
July, 2008
Pages
360
Subgenre
General

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Battling Siki (1887-1925) was once one of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world and was written about by a host of great writers, including George Bernard Shaw, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Janet Flanner, and Ernest Hemingway. Peter Benson's lively biography of the first African to win a world championship in boxing delves into the complex world of sports, race, colonialism, and the cult of personality in the early twentieth century.

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Paperback

Fiction/nonfiction

Non-Fiction

Genre

Biography & Memoirs

Publication date

July, 2008

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