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The great white hopes : the quest to defeat Jack Johnson / Graeme Kent ; foreword by Harry Carpenter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kent, Graeme.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Johnson, Jack, 1878-1946.
- Johnson, Jack.
- Boxers (Sports)--United States--Biography.
- Boxers (Sports).
- African American boxers.
- United States.
- African American boxers--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 244 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stroud [U.K.] : Sutton, 2005.
- Summary:
- This book tells the story of brash and talented black fighter Jack Johnson. This is a bizarre, extraordinary and often uncomfortable story of sport, racism, corruption and lareger-than-life characters.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-238) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0750938927
- OCLC:
- 57200565
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