Author: Graeme Kent
Publisher: Portico
ISBN: 1910232432
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
That boxing has always attracted colourful, larger-than-life figures is amply borne out by the bizarre collection of true stories gathered together in this fascinating book. Bringing together the rich history and folklore of the fight game, Graeme Kent, who first became interested in boxing after listening to the tales of his sporting grandmother, has amassed over a hundred events in over 250 years of the sport. These intriguing stories include that of the two boxers who scored a double knockout; the bout in which four different decisions were given, and the strange tale of the boxer who had part of his ear bitten off, as well as many other besides. In compiling this collection Graeme Kent has interviewed many fighters and followers of boxing, and the funny and sometimes tragic tales recounted here provide a rich and offbeat alternative history of this ever-popular sport.
Boxing's Strangest Fights
Author: Graeme Kent
Publisher: Portico
ISBN: 1910232432
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
That boxing has always attracted colourful, larger-than-life figures is amply borne out by the bizarre collection of true stories gathered together in this fascinating book. Bringing together the rich history and folklore of the fight game, Graeme Kent, who first became interested in boxing after listening to the tales of his sporting grandmother, has amassed over a hundred events in over 250 years of the sport. These intriguing stories include that of the two boxers who scored a double knockout; the bout in which four different decisions were given, and the strange tale of the boxer who had part of his ear bitten off, as well as many other besides. In compiling this collection Graeme Kent has interviewed many fighters and followers of boxing, and the funny and sometimes tragic tales recounted here provide a rich and offbeat alternative history of this ever-popular sport.
Publisher: Portico
ISBN: 1910232432
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
That boxing has always attracted colourful, larger-than-life figures is amply borne out by the bizarre collection of true stories gathered together in this fascinating book. Bringing together the rich history and folklore of the fight game, Graeme Kent, who first became interested in boxing after listening to the tales of his sporting grandmother, has amassed over a hundred events in over 250 years of the sport. These intriguing stories include that of the two boxers who scored a double knockout; the bout in which four different decisions were given, and the strange tale of the boxer who had part of his ear bitten off, as well as many other besides. In compiling this collection Graeme Kent has interviewed many fighters and followers of boxing, and the funny and sometimes tragic tales recounted here provide a rich and offbeat alternative history of this ever-popular sport.
Many Are the Crimes
Author: Ellen Schrecker
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691048703
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
Offers an analysis of the McCarthy phenomenon, tracing the machinations of anticommunism in creating a culture of fear and suspicion.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691048703
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
Offers an analysis of the McCarthy phenomenon, tracing the machinations of anticommunism in creating a culture of fear and suspicion.
Canada's Patriot Statesman
Author: Joseph Edmund Collins
Publisher: Rose Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Publisher: Rose Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Life and Times of the Right Honourable Sir John A. Macdonald, Premier of the Dominion of Canada
Author: Joseph Edmund Collins
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385322685
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385322685
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Life and Times of the Right Honourable Sir John A. Macdonald
Author: Joseph Edmund Collins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
The Son of the Prefect
Author: Edmund Hamilton Sears
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The End Of Reform
Author: Alan Brinkley
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030780710X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
At a time when liberalism is in disarray, this vastly illuminating book locates the origins of its crisis. Those origins, says Alan Brinkley, are paradoxically situated during the second term of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose New Deal had made liberalism a fixture of American politics and society. The End of Reform shows how the liberalism of the early New Deal—which set out to repair and, if necessary, restructure America’s economy—gave way to its contemporary counterpart, which is less hostile to corporate capitalism and more solicitous of individual rights. Clearly and dramatically, Brinkley identifies the personalities and events responsible for this transformation while pointing to the broader trends in American society that made the politics of reform increasingly popular. It is both a major reinterpretation of the New Deal and a crucial map of the road to today’s political landscape.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030780710X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
At a time when liberalism is in disarray, this vastly illuminating book locates the origins of its crisis. Those origins, says Alan Brinkley, are paradoxically situated during the second term of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose New Deal had made liberalism a fixture of American politics and society. The End of Reform shows how the liberalism of the early New Deal—which set out to repair and, if necessary, restructure America’s economy—gave way to its contemporary counterpart, which is less hostile to corporate capitalism and more solicitous of individual rights. Clearly and dramatically, Brinkley identifies the personalities and events responsible for this transformation while pointing to the broader trends in American society that made the politics of reform increasingly popular. It is both a major reinterpretation of the New Deal and a crucial map of the road to today’s political landscape.
Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England
Author: Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
Book Description
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
Book Description
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)