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'Unbeaten is one of the best sports books I've read in years'
Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A Life Rocky Marciano accomplished a
feat that eluded legendary champions like Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey,
Muhammad Ali, and Mike Tyson: he never lost a professional fight.
When he retired in 1956, his record was a perfect 49-0. Unbeaten is
the revelatory biography of one of the greatest heavyweights of all
time. Marciano rose from abject poverty and a life of petty crime
to become heavyweight champion and one of the most famous faces of
his era. He dominated boxing in the decade following the Second
World War with a devastating punch, which he nicknamed the 'Suzie
Q'. But perfection came at a price. Pulitzer Prize-winner Mike
Stanton tells the story of Marciano's pursuit of greatness through
the era of guys and dolls, hustlers and gamblers, glamorous
celebrities and notorious mobsters. But boxing had its dark side,
particularly at a time when Mafia mob bosses like Blinky Palermo
and Frankie Carbo wielded immense power behind the scenes. Marciano
retired while still in his prime, weighed down by the mob's
influence in the sport he loved. For the last decade of his life,
he wandered America, disillusioned, untrusting, hiding his money,
cheating on his wife, consorting with the mobsters he had loathed
for corrupting his sport, until his death in a plane crash in 1969,
the night before his 46th birthday. Unbeaten by Mike Stanton is the
story of a remarkable champion, a sport that was rotten to its
core, and a country that may have expected too much from its
heroes.
'Unbeaten is one of the best sports books I’ve read in years.' –
Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A Life.
Rocky Marciano accomplished a feat that eluded legendary champions like
Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey, Muhammad Ali, and Mike Tyson: he never lost a
professional fight. When he retired in 1956, his record was a perfect
49-0.
Unbeaten is the revelatory biography of one of the greatest
heavyweights of all time. Marciano rose from abject poverty and a life
of petty crime to become heavyweight champion and one of the most
famous faces of his era. He dominated boxing in the decade following
the Second World War with a devastating punch, which he nicknamed the
‘Suzie Q’.
But perfection came at a price.
Pulitzer Prize-winner Mike Stanton tells the story of Marciano’s
pursuit of greatness through the era of guys and dolls, hustlers and
gamblers, glamorous celebrities and notorious mobsters. But boxing had
its dark side, particularly at a time when Mafia mob bosses like Blinky
Palermo and Frankie Carbo wielded immense power behind the scenes.
Marciano retired while still in his prime, weighed down by the mob’s
influence in the sport he loved. For the last decade of his life, he
wandered America, disillusioned, untrusting, hiding his money, cheating
on his wife, consorting with the mobsters he had loathed for corrupting
his sport, until his death in a plane crash in 1969, the night before
his 46th birthday.
Unbeaten by Mike Stanton is the story of a remarkable champion, a sport
that was rotten to its core, and a country that may have expected too
much from its heroes.
Brings to life the fight world of that era. Mr. Mitchell's account
is full of memorably drawn scenes, and the stories we haven't heard
before make Jacobs Beach a cigar-chomping read.--Wall Street
Journal The value of Mitchell's book lies not only in bringing back
to life a lost era. He also shows us how the blood, sweat, and toil
of the ring has been distilled into hard-won wisdom passed down
through the generations--the connective tissue of the sweet
science.--From the Foreword by Mike Stanton, author of the
award-winning Unbeaten: Rocky Marciano's Fight for Perfection in a
Crooked World Gangsters have always infected fight game. At the end
of the First World War, through Prohibition, and into the 1930s,
the Mob emerged as a poisonous force, threatening to ravage the
sport. But it was only when cutthroat Madison Square Garden
promoter Mike Jacobs, chieftain of a notorious patch of Manhattan
pavement called Jacobs Beach, stepped aside that the real devil
appeared former Murder, Inc. killer and underworld power broker
Frankie Carbo, a man known to many simply as Mr. Gray. And Carbo
wasn't alone. Along with a crooked cast of characters that included
a rich playboy and an urbane lawyer, he controlled boxing through
most of the 1950s, with the help of a diabolical deputy, Francis
Blinky Palermo, who did much of Mr. Gray's dirty work, reportedly
drugging fighters and robbing them blind. Not until 1961, when
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy shipped Carbo and Palermo to
jail for twenty-five years, did it all come crashing down. Enriched
by the recollections of some of the men who were there, Kevin
Mitchell's Jacobs Beach offers a gripping, noirish look at boxing
and organized crime in postwar New York City and reveals the fading
glamour of both.
A collection of stories about making a living and ultimately making
a life. Told with humor and insight they have a way of asking the
questions: "Who are you?"; "What is important in your life?"; and
"What do you want to do when you grow up?" Folks of all ages have
enjoyed these tales believing they were pure fiction. See what you
think...
When the author's son, Matthew, was finally diagnosed with autism
at 12 years old, they thought the diagnosis marked the end of their
troubles. In fact, despite the increase in reported levels of
autism, appropriate support and clear information were hard to
find. The author points out that parents, who could be a valuable
source of information and help to busy professionals, are seldom
involved in the educational process, and are often made to feel
guilty about their children's autism. In this book, the author
provides an explanation of the autistic specturm and dissects and
dispels some of the myths about autistic behaviour and various
types of autism. Intended for the professionals who work with
autistic people and their families and friends, this book draws on
the Stanton family's experiences, and the experiences of other
families, to offer a portrayal of what living with autism is
actually like for all those involved and to argue that learning to
live with autism is a two-way process.
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