Jack Johnson
Title | Jack Johnson PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Johnson |
Publisher | Pickle Partners Publishing |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2017-06-28 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1787204782 |
First published in 1927, Jack Johnson’s autobiography, Jack Johnson: In the Ring and Out, remains the key source for information about his life. As he himself states in it: “I am astounded when I realize that there are few men in any period of the world’s history, who have led a more varied or intense existence than I [have].” Jack Johnson, who became the first black heavyweight boxing champion in the world in 1908, was the preeminent American sports personality of his era, a man whose success in the ring spurred a worldwide search, tinged with bigotry, for a “Great White Hope” to defeat him. Handsome, successful, and personable, Johnson was known as much for his exploits outside of the ring as for his boxing skills. He married three white women in a time when such interracial unions resulted in denunciations of him from the floor of the United States Congress. He made big money, spent it lavishly, and lived grandly. And in doing so he gained admirers and detractors all over the world and became, quite simply, one of the best known men of the early twentieth century.
Jack Johnson-in the Ring-and Out. By Jack Johnson, Etc. [With Plates.].
Title | Jack Johnson-in the Ring-and Out. By Jack Johnson, Etc. [With Plates.]. PDF eBook |
Author | John Arthur JOHNSON |
Publisher | |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 1927 |
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ISBN |
Jack Johnson in the Ring and Out
Title | Jack Johnson in the Ring and Out PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Johnson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | African American boxers |
ISBN |
Jack Johnson in the Ring and Out
Title | Jack Johnson in the Ring and Out PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Johnson |
Publisher | Gale Cengage |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | African American boxers |
ISBN | 9780810340473 |
Jack Johnson
Title | Jack Johnson PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Johnson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2013-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781494076672 |
This is a new release of the original 1927 edition.
Jack Johnson
Title | Jack Johnson PDF eBook |
Author | Damon Runyon |
Publisher | Citadel Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1992-07 |
Genre | African American boxers |
ISBN | 9780806513584 |
Autobiography of the black American boxer.
My Life in the Ring and Out
Title | My Life in the Ring and Out PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Johnson |
Publisher | Courier Dover Publications |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2018-06-13 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0486456102 |
The first African American to win the world heavyweight championship, Johnson recounts without bitterness the prejudice that dogged his public and private lives and his international adventures as a bon vivant.