Bibliograph

Smokin' Joe, the life of Joe Frazier, Mark Kram, Jr

Type

Label

Smokin' Joe, the life of Joe Frazier, Mark Kram, Jr

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-361) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Smokin' Joe

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1053865098

Responsibility statement

Mark Kram, Jr

Sub title

the life of Joe Frazier

Summary

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 sportswriter 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 thirteen children packed in small farmhouse, encountering the bigotry and oppression of the Jim Crow South, and continued with his voyage north at age fifteen to develop as a fighter in Philadelphia

Table Of Contents

Prologue: The love -- Billy Boy -- The hammer or the nail? -- Cloverlay -- Asswhuppings -- Sky larking -- "Give me a hamburger" -- The fight of the century -- Down goes Frazier -- May pops -- Boogie, boogie, boogie -- Sons -- Man to man

Target audience

adult

Classification