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Beyond glory

Name: Beyond glory
Author: David Margolick

David Margolick

20 August 2006

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Book Synopsis

In 1938, a match was to be fought between two rival boxers - Max Schmeling and Joe Louis. After his win in 1936 against Louis, Schmeling had become the toast of Nazi Germany and now in his corner were Hitler and Goebbels, along with millions of Germans for whom Schmeling symbolised not just national pride but Aryan supremacy. Joe Louis, the ferocious young black boxer, had in his corner almost the entire black community of the US, not to mention many in the Caribbean and Africa, the young Nelson Mandela among them. Alongside the blacks were Jews everywhere, including those trapped in Hitler's Europe. And, to a degree unprecedented in 1930s America, there was a huge population of the white community who hoped that a black man would knock out a white man. Beyond Glorytells this classic story which pulses with energy and captures the two fighters and the passions they aroused in a world that was about to change for ever.

About The Author

David Margolick has been Legal Affairs Editor at the New York Timesand is now a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He is the author of three books, including Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society and an Early Cry for Civil Rights. He lives in New York.

Product Details

ISBN: 9780747561859
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury, (20 August 2006)
Number of Pages: 423
Weight: 331 grams
Language: English
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 29 mm
Categories:: Biography: general