A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring ’20s

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Jack Dempsey used to be perfectly suited to the time in which he fought, the time when america 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, used to be heavyweight champion of the world. A Flame of Pure Fire is the strange 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, in spite of everything, a gentleman of rare generosity and sincerity, Dempsey embodied an The us grappling with the confusing demands of preeminence. Dempsey lived a life that touched each a part of the American experience in the first half of the twentieth century. Roger Kahn, one in every of our preeminent writers about the human side of sport, has found in Dempsey a subject matter 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 referred to as “a flame of pure fire, at last a hero,” Roger Kahn finds the heart of The us.

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