The Great White Hopes: The Quest to Defeat Jack Johnson by Graeme Kent, Harry Carpenter
The Great White Hopes: The Quest to Defeat Jack Johnson

Graeme Kent, Harry Carpenter

The Great White Hopes: The Quest to Defeat Jack Johnson

Graeme Kent, Harry Carpenter

244 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

informative reflective medium-paced

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In Sydney, Australia, in 1908 the brash and talented black fighter Jack Johnson won the heavyweight championship of the world from the Canadian Tommy Burns. There was an immediate storm of protest. Writers, including Jack London, and politicians f...

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