Joe Louis
Subtitle: The Life of a Heavyweight
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780786459070
Subjects: Boxers (sports); Louis, joe, 1914-1981; African americans, biography
Description: "Joe Louis held the heavyweight boxing championship longer than any other fighter and defended it a record 25 times. During the 1930s and 1940s, the owner of the heavyweight title belt was the most prominent sports competitor not aligned with a team sport. The biography of Louis outlines his rise from poverty to the best-known African American"--Provided by publisher.