Bittersweet Science
Subtitle: Racism, Racketeering and the Political Economy of Boxing
Publisher: International Publishers Company, Incorporated; International Publishers Co; International Publishers Co., Inc.
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780717808298
Subjects: Recreation
Description: "Based upon exhaustive research in court records, memoirs, the files of the New York State Athletic Commission and related bodies from Nevada to New Jersey - not to mention the gangster venues from garish Las Vegas to venal South Philadelphia, this work tells the untold story of the grimy intersection of racism and racketeering in boxing"--