9780060934385-0060934387-POUND FOR POUND

POUND FOR POUND

ISBN-13: 9780060934385
ISBN-10: 0060934387
Author: Herb Boyd
Publication date: 2005
Publisher: Amistad
Format: Paperback 328 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780060934385
ISBN-10: 0060934387
Author: Herb Boyd
Publication date: 2005
Publisher: Amistad
Format: Paperback 328 pages

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POUND FOR POUND (ISBN-13: 9780060934385 and ISBN-10: 0060934387), written by authors Herb Boyd, was published by Amistad in 2005. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent POUND FOR POUND (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Hailed by critics as a long overdue portrait of Sugar Ray Robinson, a man who was as elusive out of the ring as he was magisterial in it, Pound for Pound is a lively and nuanced profile of an athlete who is arguably the best boxer the sport has ever known. So great were Robinson's skills, he was eulogized by Woody Allen, compared to Joe Louis, and praised by Muhammad Ali, who called him "the king, the master, my idol." But the same discipline that Robinson brought to the sport eluded him at home, leading him to emotionally and physically abuse his family -- particularly his wife, the gorgeous dancer Edna Mae, whose entrepreneurial skills helped Robinson build an empire to which Harlemites were inexorably drawn. Exposing Robinson's flaws as well as putting his career in the context of his life and times, renowned journalist and bestselling author Herb Boyd, with Ray Robinson II, tells for the first time the full story of a complex man and sport-altering athlete.

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