Smokin' Joe : the life of Joe Frazier
Kram, Mark2020
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History will remember the rivalry of Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali as one for the ages, a trilogy of extraordinary fights that transcended the world of sports and crossed into a sociocultural drama that divided the country. Joe Frazier was a much more complex figure than just his rivalry with Ali would suggest. In this riveting and nuanced portrayal, acclaimed sports writer Mark Kram, Jr. unlinks Frazier from Ali and for the first time gives a full-bodied accounting of Frazier's life, a journey that began as the youngest of 13 children packed in small farm house, encountering the bigotry and oppression of the Jim Crow South, and continued with his voyage north at age 15 to develop as a fighter in Philadelphia.
Main title:
Smokin' Joe : the life of Joe Frazier / Mark Kram.
Author:
Kram, Mark, author
Imprint:
New York : Ecco, 2020.
Collation:
384 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2019.
ISBN:
9780062654472 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
796.83092
Language:
English
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BRN:
2277135
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