UNFORGIVABLE BLACKNESS: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson.
by Ward, Geoffrey C
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375415327
- ISBN 13
- 9780375415326
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About This Item
New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 2004.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A full-scale biography of Jack Johnson - the first black heavyweight champion in history, and the most celebrated - and most reviled - African American of his age. "At a time when whites ran everything in America, he took orders from no one and resolved to live as if color did not exist. While most blacks struggled just to survive, he reveled in his riches and his fame. And at a time when the mere suspicion that a black man had flirted with a white woman could cost him his life, he insisted on sleeping with whomever he pleased, and married three. Because he did so the federal government set out to destroy him, and he was forced to endure a year of prison and seven years of exile." This draws on much new material, including Johnson's never-before-published prison memoir. Illustrated with more than fifty photographs. Notes, bibliography, index. Slightly oversized format. 492 pp.
Synopsis
Geoffrey C. Ward won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1989. With Ken Burns, he is coauthor of The Civil War and Jazz . He lives in New York City.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84204
- Title
- UNFORGIVABLE BLACKNESS: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson.
- Author
- Ward, Geoffrey C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0375415327
- ISBN 13
- 9780375415326
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 2004.
- Keywords
- biography, boxing, racism,
- Bookseller catalogs
- African American History and nonfiction;
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