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Jack Dempsey (1895-1983) launched the age of big-money， high-visibility boxing with his 1919 defeat of heavyweight champion Jess Willard. Then when Gene Tunney beat Dempsey in 1927， assisted by a referee’s controversial ’long count，’ it foreshadowed the end of an era. With his good looks， free-and-easy ways， and roughneck background--including an ex-wife who was a prostitute before and after their marriage--Dempsey was the perfect hero for the brawling， cynical 1920s. Even his sensational trial in 1920 on charges of draft evasion and ’white slavery’ (he was acquitted) suited the decade’s appetite for lurid tabloid stories. Roger Kahn， who met the fighter in the mid-1950s， takes an idiosyncratic approach to biography. He begins with a 1960 encounter in Dempsey’s restaurant， moves back to the fighter’s hard-knocks apprenticeship， covers Dempsey’s childhood after an account of the 1920 trial， and intersperses snapshots of the American scene with recollections and reflections from the champ throughout. This technique pays off. Readers get a vivid sense of the period and of Dempsey as its hard-living but honorable exemplar， and they come to share Kahn’s affection and respect for the thoughtful， generous man he became in later years. Squeamish readers， be warned: along with the cultural history， there’s lots of boxing action， graphically described. --Wendy Smith
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From Publishers Weekly
’He was the wild and raucous champion of the wild and raucous 1920s，’ writes Kahn (The Boys of Summer， etc.) of the legendary heavyweight William Harrison ’Jack’ Dempsey. This ’hobo， roughneck， brawler， fighter， slacker， lover， millionaire， gentleman’ provides Kahn a vehicle for chronicling the jazz age itself. Dempsey emerged out of the still-wild West， having fought in mining towns throughout Utah and Colorado， lean and hungry for success as his country stood on the precipice of unprecedented wealth and power. His transformation from rural tough， the ’Manassa Mauler，’ into the preeminent athlete in the world marked the arrival of sport as big business in a prosperous new America. When he won the heavyweight championship in 1919， Dempsey did it in front of 20，000 people. Less than eight years later， he drew a crowd of 120，000 for his first bout with Gene Tunney (which he lost)， still the largest ever in boxing， and made a fortune. In graceful and fluid prose， Kahn presents the con men， gangsters， prostitutes and starlets who inhabited the turbulent， Prohibition-era story of Jack Dempsey. The larger-than-life storytellers of the ageAlegendary sportswriters like Grantland Rice， Ring Lardner and Damon RunyonAfeature prominently. Kahn delivers a performance of which any of those whiskey-swilling， rakish scribes would have been proud. (Oct.)
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