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Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20s
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Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20s Hardcover - 1999

by KAHN, Roger

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NY: Harcourt Brace & Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0151002967 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. .
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  • Title Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20s
  • Author KAHN, Roger
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harcourt Brace & Company, NY
  • Date 1999
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 34760
  • ISBN 9780151002962 / 0151002967
  • Weight 1.83 lbs (0.83 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.29 x 6.32 x 1.56 in (23.60 x 16.05 x 3.96 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Boxers (Sports) - United States, Dempsey, Jack
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99015382
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Summary

Jack Dempsey was perfectly suited to the time in which he fought, the time when the United States first felt the throb of its own overwhelming power. For eight years and two months after World War I, Dempsey, with his fierce good looks and matchless dedication to the kill, was heavyweight champion of the world. A Flame of Pure Fire is the extraordinary story of a man and a country growing to maturity in a blaze of strength and exuberance that nearly burned them to ash. Hobo, roughneck, fighter, lover, millionaire, movie star, and, finally, a gentleman of rare generosity and sincerity, Dempsey embodied an America grappling with the confusing demands of preeminence. Dempsey lived a life that touched every part of the American experience in the first half of the twentieth century. Roger Kahn, one of our preeminent writers about the human side of sport, has found in Dempsey a subject that matches his own manifold talents. A friend of Dempsey's and an insightful observer of the ways in which sport can measure a society's evolution, Kahn reaches a new and exciting stage in his acclaimed career with this book. In the story of a man John Lardner called "a flame of pure fire, at last a hero," Roger Kahn finds the heart of America.

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A YOUNG WRITER WHO HAD RECENTLY DISCOVERED William Harrison Dempsey surely was a seductive idea.

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"The fact that Jack Dempsey was one of America's preeminent celebrities in the 1920s was the result of both the man himself and the special decade in which he flourished. That is why Roger Kahn devotes almost equal attention to the two phenomena. Together, they give us a brilliantly written picture of a champion and his era."—Ring Lardner, Jr.

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