The Great White Hopes: The Quest to Defeat Jack Johnson
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (831 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 075094613X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author GRAEME KENT was the head of educational broadcasting and textbook production in the Soloman Islands, a headteacher for 18 years, a scriptwriter and producer for the schools broadcasting department at the BBC. He has spent years collecting material on the White Hopes from contemporary newspaper accounts and court records. . He has written more than 40 non-fiction and fiction books
"Informative book about lots of different fighters" according to Eddie Smith. I picked this book up for a dollar off of a another site, and learned a ton of information that was new to me about many different fighters. Jack Johnson has been written about extensively in a variety of books over the years, and the author does a nice job weaving Johnson in and out of the biographies of the several dozen different fighters discussed in the book. But it is the stories of eventual Johnson conqueror Jess Willard and murdered middleweight champion Stanle. Author entertainingly reveals the men whose names dot the ring records of the great hvywghts of the early 20th century Like the Tom Stoppard play, ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD, which speculated as to what Hamlet's two friends were doing whenever they exited a scene from Shakespeare's HAMLET, Graeme Kent elucidates on the ring careers and lives of the "Great White Hopes" when they weren't swapping leather with the first African-American world heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson (who reigned from 1908 to 1915) - that is, if they were actually good/bad/lucky/unlucky enough to get . EXCELLENT READ FOR BOXING FANS Kent has a vivid writing style as a boxing writer. This in itself is a talent that seems more and more exclusive, as more restrictions and criticisms are levelled at the sport (give me boxing over ultimate fighting any day).I laughed out loud a few times; some of the boxers and the people who associated with them are the stuff from which so much fantastic fiction has been drawn. And the account of the period when managers and promoters seized their charges and gave the
. GRAEME KENT was the head of educational broadcasting and textbook production in the Soloman Islands, a headteacher for 18 years, a scriptwriter and producer for the schools broadcasting department at the BBC. He has written more than 40 non-fiction and fiction books. He has spent years collecting material on the White Hopes from cont
Over the next seven years, more than 30 white fighters tried to beat Jackson, lured by the prospect of fame and a quick buck. Writers, including Jack London, and politicians feared the accession of the fearless and outspoken Johnson would threaten white supremacy. Graeme White tells the full story of the Great White Hopes for the first time.. It was predicted f{ accurately f{ that his reign would lead to civic unrest and race riots. There was an immediate storm of protest. It was not until 1915 that Jackson lost his crown, and during the years in between an extraordinary human drama was played out on the boxing world stage. In 1908 talented black US fighter Jack Johnson won the heavyweight championship of the world from the Canadian Tommy Burns