Crazy Fourth - How Jack Johnson Kept His Heavyweight Title Put Las Vegas, New

Informationen zum Autor Toby Smith is a former sportswriter for the Albuquerque Journal. He is the author of nine previous books, including Kid Blackie: Jack Dempsey's Colorado Days and Bush League Boys: The Postwar Legends of Baseball in the American Southwest (UNM Press). He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Klappentext In Crazy Fourth Toby Smith tells the story of how the African American boxer Jack Johnson--the bombastic and larger-than-life reigning world heavyweight champion--met Jim Flynn on the Fourth of July in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Zusammenfassung Tells the story of how the African American boxer Jack Johnson - the bombastic and larger-than-life reigning world heavyweight champion - met Jim Flynn on the fourth of July in Las Vegas, New Mexico.

Product details

• Authors: Toby Smith
• Publisher: University Of New Mexico Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780826361431
• ISBN: 978-0-8263-6143-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Boxen, Geschichte des Sports, Sports & Recreation, SPORTS & RECREATION / History, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX), SPORTS & RECREATION / Boxing