Iron Mike collects the best writing on the tumultuous fifteen-year
career of the most reviled and idolized athlete in the world,
Michael Gerard Tyson. Since becoming, at age nineteen, the youngest
heavyweight champion in history, Tyson's dramatic rise, fall, and
continuing struggle has provoked more passionate writing, both in
and out of the sports pages, than that of any other boxer since
Muhammad Ali. Iron Mike is about more than boxing. Like no other
athlete, Mike Tyson is at the nexus of America's cultural anxieties
about race, class, masculinity, violence, and celebrity; like no
other athlete his story of high drama and low comedy inspires
writers to wrestle with these themes, with Tyson often no more than
the occasion for the writer's own preoccupations. And Tyson has
provided many such occasions: his rise to the Undisputed World
Heavyweight Championship at age twenty-one; his rocky marriage to
Robin Givens; his controversial conviction for the rape of Desiree
Washington; his return to boxing and reclamation of the WBC and WBA
belts; his biting of Evander Holyfield. Iron Mike is a
kaleidoscopic portrait of a man who, for better and worse, is one
of the most recognizable, popular, and defining icons of our time.
The book includes selections from Joyce Carol Oates, Pete Hamill,
Jose Torres, Pete Dexter, Phil Berger, Christopher Hitchens, Robert
Lipsyte, Dave Anderson, Jonathan Yardley, Richard Rodriguez,
Katherine Dunn, Budd Schulberg, William Plummer, David Remnick,
Keith Botsworth, and others.
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