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A Beautiful Mind: The Shooting Script (Newmarket Shooting Script)
by Akiva Goldsman Publisher Comments In this powerful and dramatic biography Sylvia Nasar vividly re-creates the life of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recovered and was honored with...
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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
by Geoffrey C. Ward Publisher Comments He was the first black heavyweight champion in history, the most celebrated and most reviled African American of his age. In Unforgivable Blackness, the prizewinning biographer Geoffrey C. Ward brings to vivid life the real Jack Johnson, a...
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The Fight of the Century: Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, and the Struggle for Racial Equality
by Thomas R. Hietala Publisher Comments This is a revealing look at the history of race relations in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century portrayed through the lives and times of the first two African-American heavyweight boxing champions, Jack Johnson and Joe Louis....
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On Boxing
by Joyce Carol Oates Publisher Comments Chapter One "It's a terrible sport, but it's a sport . . . the fight for survival is the fight. --Rocky Graziano, " former middleweight champion of the world They are young welterweight boxers so evenly matched they might be twins, though one has a...
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The Cinderella Man
by Michael Delisa Publisher Comments In 1934, Jim Braddock was down and out. His boxing career blighted by broken hands, the New York Irishman had won five of his previous 21 bouts and had been forced to quit. The Great Depression was at its height. When work dried up on the Hudson River...
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Cinderella Man: The Shooting Script (Newmarket Shooting Script)
by Ron Howard Publisher Comments The shooting script from the movie "Cinderella Man" includes the complete screenplay, a Q&A with director Ron Howard, film stills, and complete cast and crew credits from the movie about legendary boxer Jim Braddock....
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Million Dollar Baby: Stories From the Corner
by F. X. Toole Publisher Comments This hard-hitting collection of powerful and moving tales based on the experiences of the late, great fight manager and cut man Jerry Boyd, who wrote under the pen name F. X. Toole, is now the basis for a major motion picture starring Hilary Swank and...
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Cinderella Man: James Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History
by Jeremy Schaap Publisher Comments Against the gritty backdrop of the Depression, "Cinderella Man" brings the dramatic all-American story of boxer James Braddock to life, evoking a time when the sport of boxing resonated with a country trying desperately to get back on its feet....
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Braddock: The Rise of the Cinderella Man
by Jim Hague Publisher Comments The only available biography of a boxing legend. James J. Braddock's nickname-the Cinderella Man-was an understatement. His rise from hard-luck, bottom-rung local slugger to heavyweight champion of the world is still regarded as one of the greatest true...
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The Gloves: A Boxing Chronicle
by Robert Anasi Publisher Comments In his last year of eligibility, Robert Anasi, age thirty-two, decided to fight in the Golden Gloves tournament, the premier event in amateur boxing. "The gym becomes a way of life," he explains, and so it does for the reader, as Anasi ushers us into the...
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Cinderella Man
by Marc Cerasini Publisher Comments Set in New York in the Depression, this is the story of Jim Braddock, who takes up boxing to make money to feed his family, and eventually goes up against champ Max Baer, notorious for having killed two men in the ring. James J. Braddock, born in New...
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