The Longest Fight: In the Ring with Joe Gans, Boxing's First African American Champion

by William Gildea

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Many people came to Goldfield, Nevada, America's last gold-rush town, to seek their fortune. However, on a searing summer day in September 1906, they came not to strike it rich but to watch what would become the longest boxing match of the twentieth century--between Joe Gans, the first African American boxing champion, and "Battling" Nelson, a vicious and dirty brawler. It was a match billed as the battle of the races. In "The Longest Fight," the...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0374280975

ISBN13:9780374280970

Release Date:June 2012

Publisher:Farrar Straus Giroux

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

African-American & Black Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Boxing Discrimination & Racism Ethnic & National History of Sports Individual Sports Miscellaneous Race Relations Sports & Outdoors Sports & Recreation

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