Joe Louis The Life of a Heavyweight |
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| Author:
| Freedman, Lew |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7864-5907-0 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2013 |
| Publisher: | McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $42.00 |
Book Description:
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Joe Louis held the heavyweight boxing championship longer than any other fighter and defended it a record 25 times. This biography of Louis outlines his rise from poverty in Alabama to becoming the best-known African American of his times and describes how an uneducated man, simple at his core, became so articulate and always ended up on the side of right in the battles he fought, with fist or voice.
Joe Louis held the heavyweight boxing championship longer than any other fighter and defended it a record 25 times. This biography of Louis outlines his rise from poverty in Alabama to becoming the best-known African American of his times and describes how an uneducated man, simple at his core, became so articulate and always ended up on the side of right in the battles he fought, with fist or voice.