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Unforgivable Blackness (Paperback)

By: Geoffrey C. Ward (Author)

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"Based upon autobiographical material and contemporary newspaper sources, Geoffrey C. Ward's magisterial book is the definitive portrait of one of America's greatest sportsmen."

Publisher's note

The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of A First-Class Temperament presents a full-scale portrait that draws on a wealth of period sources, including Johnson's never-before-published prison memoir, of heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson, from his rise to success to his prison sentence and life in exile.

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In this companion biography to the Ken Burns PBS television special, historian Geoffrey Ward tells of the life and times of the first African American to become the heavyweight boxing champion. Jack Johnson was a great athlete whose flamboyant lifestyle and prideful bearing engendered a strong reaction among the public in early 20th-century America. Much of the white audience hated him and showed it. For years, they longed unsuccessfully for a "Great White Hope" to put the champion down--and until that happened, governments hounded him and the media chronicled his trials inside and outside the ring. Ward tells of Johnson's difficult rise in the sport, including his struggle to get a championship match, and the years of wealth and excess, when, as a celebrity, he lived life on his own terms. Those years of triumph also saw unyielding attention to his personal life, followed by a long and sad period of decline. Using primary sources from the time, Ward conveys a tale of sports and racial politics, richly illustrated in the style of all Ken Burns documentaries.

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