Full name: Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink

Author: David Margolick Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780375726194 0375726195

Nothing in the annals of sports has aroused more passion than the heavyweight fights in New York in 1936 and 1938 between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling -- bouts that symbolized the hopes, hatreds, and fears of a world moving toward total war. Acclaimed journalist David Margolick takes us into the careers of both men -- a black American and a Nazi German hero -- and depicts the extraordinary buildup to their legendary 1938 rematch. Vividly capturing the outpouring of emotion that the two fighters brought forth, Margolick brilliantly illuminates the cultural and social divisions that they came to represent. Similar books: Shadow Box by George Plimpton Ghosts of Manila by Mark Kram The Sweet Science by A. J. Liebling Four Kings by George Kimball On Boxing by Joyce Carol Oates Facing Ali by Stephen Brunt Cinderella Man by Jeremy Schaap The Fight by Norman Mailer Unforgivable Blackness by Geoffrey C. Ward A Flame of Pure Fire by Roger Kahn The Devil and Sonny Liston by Nick Tosches A Neutral Corner by A. J. Liebling Muhammad Ali by Thomas Hauser Sound and Fury by Dave Kindred Speed Kings by Andy Bull Dead Wake by Erik Larson The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Go Like Hell by A. J. Baime