A Flame Of Pure Fire. Jack Dempsey And The Roaring '20s

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publisher Place: Usa
Publisher Year: 2000
Edition: First Edition

Description: 474 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: Jack Dempsey was perfectly suited to the time in which he fought, the time when the United States first felt the throb of its own overwhelming power. For eight years and two months after World War I, Dempsey, with his fierce good looks and matchless dedication to the kill, was heavyweight champion of the world. A Flame of Pure Fire is the extraordinary story of a man and a country growing to maturity in a blaze of strength and exuberance that nearly burned them to ash. Hobo, roughneck, fighter, lover, millionaire, movie star, and, finally, a gentleman of rare generosity and sincerity, Dempsey embodied an America grappling with the confusing demands of preeminence. Dempsey lived a life that touched every part of the American experience in the first half of the twentieth century. Roger Kahn, one of our preeminent writers about the human side of sport, has found in Dempsey a subject that matches his own manifold talents. A friend of Dempseys and an insightful observer of the ways in which sport can measure a societys evolution, Kahn reaches a new and exciting stage in his acclaimed career with this book. In the story of a man John Lardner called "a flame of pure fire, at last a hero," Roger Kahn finds the heart of America.

ISBN: 9780156014144