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Author : William Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : African American boxers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127768674
An African-American boy idolises world champion prize-fighter Joe Louis as a boxer and a role model.
Author : Chris Mead
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780486471822
Known affectionately as "The Brown Bomber," Louis held the heavyweight boxing championship for a record 11 years. Acclaimed as "stunning" by Kirkus Reviews, this is perhaps the best biography of the popular pugilist, recounting his triumphs and tragedies against the background of America in the 1930s and '40s. Includes 14 photographs.
Author : Joe Louis,Edna Rust,Art Rust
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015071150893
The memoirs of the boxer known as the Brown Bomber, who became heavyweight champion of the world in 1937.
Author : Lew Freedman
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786459070
Joe Louis held the heavyweight boxing championship longer than any other fighter and defended it a record 25 times. (In the 1930s and 1940s, the owner of the heavyweight title was the most prominent non-team sports competitor.) In addition, Louis helped bridge the gap of understanding between whites and blacks. During World War II he not only raised money for Army and Navy relief and entertained millions of troops as a morale officer, but became a symbol of American hope and strength. This biography of Louis outlines his rise from poverty in Alabama to become the best-known African American of his time and describes how an uneducated man, simple at his core, became so articulate and ended up on the side of right in the battles he fought, with fist or voice.
Author : Rugio Vitale
Publisher : Holloway House Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1990-10
Category : African American boxers
ISBN : 0870675702
A biography of the beloved heavyweight champion.
Author : Randy Roberts
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300168853
A “humbling, inspiring . . . deeply emotional” biography of the boxing legend who held the heavyweight world championship for more than eleven years (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Known as the Brown Bomber, Joe Louis defended his heavyweight title an astonishing twenty-five times. Through the 1930s, he got more column inches of newspaper coverage than President Roosevelt. At a time when the boxing ring was the only venue where black and white could meet on equal terms, Louis embodied Black America’s hope for dignity and equality. And in 1938, his politically charged defeat of German boxer Max Schmeling made Louis a national hero on the world stage. Through meticulous research and first-hand interviews, acclaimed biographer Randy Roberts presents a complete portrait of Louis and his outsized impact on sport and country. Digging beneath the simplistic narratives of heroism and victimization, Roberts reveals an athlete who carefully managed his public image, and whose relationships with both the black and white communities—including his relationships with mobsters—were deeply complex. “Roberts is a fine match with his subject. He supports with powerful evidence his contention that Louis’s impact was enormous and profound.” —The Boston Globe
Author : Robert E. Jakoubek
Publisher : Facts On File
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : UOM:39015024988902
A biography of Joe Louis describing his youth in a Detroit ghetto, his rise to heavyweight champion and major sports hero, and his role in destroying the myth of racial inferiority.
Author : Marcy S. Sacks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136175015
This insightful study offers a fresh perspective on the life and career of champion boxer Joe Louis. The remarkable success and global popularity of the "Brown Bomber" made him a lightning rod for debate over the role and rights of African Americans in the United States. Historian Marcy S. Sacks traces both Louis’s career and the criticism and commentary his fame elicited to reveal the power of sports and popular culture in shaping American social attitudes. Supported by key contemporary documents, Joe Louis: Sports and Race in Twentieth-Century America is both a succinct introduction to a larger-than-life figure and an essential case study of the intersection of popular culture and race in the mid-century United States.
Author : Chris Mead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Boxers (Sports)
ISBN : OCLC:43334669
Author : Joe Louis Barrow,Barbara Munder
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015071150927
Describes the background and the actions of Joe Louis's most famous bouts.
Author : David A. Adler
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : African American boxers
ISBN : 0152164804
The life story of Joe Louis, heavyweight champion boxer, with the complete history of his career in the ring.
Author : Richard Bak
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 030680879X
When Joe Louis (1914–1981) knocked out the German boxer Max Schmeling in 1938 in two minutes and four seconds, the entire nation—black and white—celebrated the "fight of the century" as a victory of the United States against the ominous tide of Nazism. Never had an African-American received such universal praise across racial lines. Heavyweight champion for a record twelve years from 1937 to 1949, Louis opened the doors for such future black athletes as Jackie Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Muhammad Ali.Joe Louis depicts the prizefighter's life, and the times in which he lived, from his childhood in a sharecropper's cabin in Alabama and his formative years in Detroit, to his legendary career, his service in the Army, his stint as a professional wrestler after retiring from boxing in 1951, and his professional demise as an official greeter for a Las Vegas casino. Along the way, Richard Bak compassionately, yet evenhandedly, details Louis's private vices: incessant womanizing, reckless spending habits, massive debts to the IRS, and drug abuse. Filled with over one hundred photographs, including twenty-two in color, Joe Louis is the most comprehensive portrait yet written of one of the greatest African-American heroes who used his fists figuratively—and literally—to fight racism.
Author : Donald McRae
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781471135385
WINNER OF THE 1996 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE. In the early 1990s, Donald McRae set out to discover the truth about the intense and forbidding world of professional boxing. Travelling around the States and Britain, he was welcomed into the inner sanctums of some of the greatest fighters of the period - men such as Mike Tyson, Chris Eubank, Oscar de la Hoya, Frank Bruno, Evander Holyfield and Naseem Hamed among them. They opened up to him, revealing unforgettable personal stories from both inside and outside the ring, and explaining why it is that some are driven to compete in this most brutal of sports, risking their health and even their lives. The result is a classic account of boxing that remains as fresh and entertaining as when it was first published almost 20 years ago. McRae approaches his subjects with wit, compassion and insight, and the result was a book that was a deserved winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year prize.
Author : Matt de la Peña
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780147510617
The magnificent, inspiring story of an AMERICAN SPORTS HERO, by Newbery Award-winning author Matt de la Pena. On the eve of World War II, African-American boxer Joe Louis fought German Max Schmeling in a bout that had more at stake than just the world heavyweight title. For much of America, their fight came to represent America’s war with Germany. This elegant and powerful picture book biography centers on this historic fight in which the American people came together to celebrate our nation’s founding ideals. New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book Award Booklist Editor's Choice Best Books of 2011 School Library Journal Best Books of 2011
Author : Joe Louis
Publisher : Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1648370152
One of the greatest boxers of all time, Joe Louis will teach you to deliver a knockout punch, step by step. Whether you are a sports fan, want a great workout, or plan to enter the ring one day, this definitive book belongs in your collection.