The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America by Elliott J. Gorn

The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America

Elliott J. Gorn

328 pages first pub 1986 (editions)

nonfiction history sports informative slow-paced
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It didn't occur to me until fairly late in the work that I was writing a book about the beginnings of a national celebrity culture. By 1860, a few boxers had become heroes to working-class men, and big fights drew considerable newspaper coverage, ...

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