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Unforgivable blackness : the rise and fall of Jack Johnson

text Unforgivable blackness : the rise and fall of Jack Johnson

Ward, Geoffrey C.

Summary
Prizewinning biographer Geoffrey C. Ward brings to life the real Jack Johnson, a figure far more complex and compelling than the newspaper headlines he inspired could ever convey. Johnson battled his way from obscurity to the top of the heavyweigh... Read more
Contents
Book one: The rise -- The pure-blooded American -- The good man -- The sport -- The man they all dodge -- The man with the golden smile -- The champion -- The greatest colored man that ever lived -- Book two: The fall -- The brunette in a blond to... Read more
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xi, 492 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Publisher
A.A. Knopf 2004
MARC Permalink

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 921 JOHNSON, JACK WAR in Adult Non-fiction Available

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