Synopses & Reviews
A.J. Liebling's classic
New Yorker pieces on the "sweet science of bruising" bring vividly to life the boxing world as it once was. It depicts the great events of boxing's American heyday: Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's rise to prominence, Joe Louis's unfortunate decline. Liebling never fails to find the human story behind the fight, and he evokes the atmosphere in the arena as distinctly as he does the goings-on in the ring--a combination that prompted
Sports Illustrated to name
The Sweet Science the best American sports book of all time.
A. J. Liebling, born October 18, 1904, joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1935 and contributed innumerable articles to the magazine before his death in 1963. His greatest work is collected in Just Enough Liebling.
A. J. Liebling's classic New Yorker pieces on the "sweet science of bruising" bring vividly to life the boxing world as it once was. The Sweet Science depicts the great events of boxing's American heyday: Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's rise to prominence, Joe Louis's tragic decline. Liebling never fails to find the human story behind the fight, and he always evokes the atmosphere in the arena as distinctly as he does the goings-on in the ringa combination that prompted Sports Illustrated to name The Sweet Science the best American sports book of all time.
As the noted boxing writer Robert Anasi remarks in his foreword to this book, "Liebling doesn't make the ring over into the setting for a morality play or an alternate site for Armageddon. His own boxing experience allowed him to represent the sport as sport, and to see boxing the way the pros do: as a job, more difficult than most, but also more rewarding."
"In The Sweet Sciencein all his booksLiebling himself, the voice and the character, is immensely appealing."David Remnick, The New Yorker
"In The Sweet Sciencein all his booksLiebling himself, the voice and the character, is immensely appealing."David Remnick, The New Yorker
"Nobody wrote about boxing with more grace and enthusiasm than Joe Liebling."Red Smith, The New York Times
Synopsis
A.J. Liebling's classic
New Yorker pieces on the "sweet science of bruising" bring vividly to life the boxing world as it once was. It depicts the great events of boxing's American heyday: Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's rise to prominence, Joe Louis's unfortunate decline. Liebling never fails to find the human story behind the fight, and he evokes the atmosphere in the arena as distinctly as he does the goings-on in the ring--a combination that prompted
Sports Illustrated to name
The Sweet Science the best American sports book of all time.
Synopsis
A.J. Liebling's classic New Yorker pieces on the sweet science of bruising bring vividly to life the boxing world as it once was.
The Sweet Science depicts the great events of boxing's American heyday: Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's rise to prominence, Joe Louis's unfortunate decline. Liebling never fails to find the human story behind the fight, and he evokes the atmosphere in the arena as distinctly as he does the goings-on in the ring--a combination that prompted Sports Illustrated to name The Sweet Science the best American sports book of all time.
About the Author
A. J. Liebling joined the staff of
The New Yorker in 1935 and wrote for the magazine until his death in 1963. His greatest work is collected in
Just Enough Liebling.
Robert Anasi is the author of
The Gloves.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Robert AnasiIntroduction
The Bog Fellows
Boxing with the Naked Eye
Broken Fighter Arrives
The Melting Middleweight
Sugar Ray and the Milling Cove
Kearns by a Knockout
The Big Fellows Again
New Champ
Long Toddle, Short Fight
Charles I
Charles II
Other Formats
The Boy from South Main Street
Nino and a Nanimal
Soirée Intime
The Neutral Corner Art Group
Debut of a Seasoned Artist
Wunderkind
Great-and-a-Half Champion
Next-to-Last Stand, Maybe
Donnybrook Farr
Ahab and Nemesis
Ahab and Nemesis