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Crazy Fourth - How Jack Johnson Kept His Heavyweight Title and Put Las Vegas, New Mexico, on the Map (Paperback)
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Crazy Fourth - How Jack Johnson Kept His Heavyweight Title and Put Las Vegas, New Mexico, on the Map (Paperback)
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In 1912 boxing was as popular a spectator sport in the United
States as baseball, if not more so. It was also rife with
corruption and surrounded by gambling, drinking, and prostitution,
so much so that many cities and states passed laws to control it.
But not in New Mexico. It was the perfect venue for one of the
biggest, loudest, most rambunctious heavyweight championship bouts
ever seen. In Crazy Fourth Toby Smith tells the story of how the
African American boxer Jack Johnson-the bombastic and
larger-than-life reigning world heavyweight champion-met Jim Flynn
on the fourth of July in Las Vegas, New Mexico. The civic boosters,
bursting with pride in their town, raised a hundred thousand
dollars for the fight, pushing events like the sinking of the
Titanic to the back pages of every newspaper. In the end, once the
dust finally settled on the whole unseemly spectacle, Las Vegas
would spend the next generation making good on its losses.
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