A Flame of Pure Fire-Jack Dempsey & the Roaring '20s

Description: "A Flame of Pure Fire-Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20s" by Roger Kahn - Softcover - Published in 2000 by Harcourt Brace - 474 pages (16 pages of great black & white photos) - EXCELLENT condition. "He was the wild and raucous champion of the wild and raucous 1920s," writes Kahn of the legendary heavyweight William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey. This "hobo, roughneck, brawler, fighter, slacker, lover, millionaire, gentleman" provides Kahn a vehicle for chronicling the jazz age itself. Dempsey emerged out of the still-wild West, having fought in mining towns throughout Utah and Colorado, lean and hungry for success as his country stood on the precipice of unprecedented wealth and power. His transformation from rural tough, the "Manassa Mauler," into the preeminent athlete in the world marked the arrival of sport as big business in a prosperous new America. When he won the heavyweight championship in 1919, Dempsey did it in front of 20,000 people. Less than eight years later, he drew a crowd of 120,000 for his first bout with Gene Tunney (which he lost), still the largest ever in boxing, and made a fortune. In graceful and fluid prose, Kahn presents the con men, gangsters, prostitutes and starlets who inhabited the turbulent, Prohibition-era story of Jack Dempsey. The larger-than-life storytellers of the age -- legendary sportswriters like Grantland Rice, Ring Lardner and Damon Runyon -- feature prominently. Kahn delivers a performance of which any of those whiskey-swilling, rakish scribes would have been proud. Again, this book is in EXCELLENT condition (what looks like rubbing on the cover is just part of the graphics). No collection of books on Jack Dempsey or on boxing in the 1920s is complete without this one. Please see the scan for the cover and so you can judge the condition for yourself (unlike many other booksellers, who post generic scans, the book in my scan is the one you will get). You can try to buy this book for less money from one of those eBay booksellers with hundreds, if not thousands of negatives (you know the ones I refer to) and be lucky if the book is delivered to you in the stated condition (if you even get it at all), or you can buy it from me and be assured of a prompt delivery and of receiving a high quality item true to the condition indicated. You won't be disappointed. All previous buyers of my sports books have been completely satisfied. I have many others available; please inquire. The book will be sent via Media mail shipping in the USA. I will combine shipping to reduce charges for multiple items. If you purchase more than one item, please wait until I send you an invoice with the appropriate combined shipping discount. Credit cards are accepted through PayPal.com. Please see my auctions and my eBay store for hundreds of books and a wide variety of sports and non-sports collectibles. All items are packed with care to insure safe delivery. Please contact me if you have any questions. 4-19-19 -- 24.4

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