Download e-book for kindle: The Life and Crimes of Don King: The Shame of Boxing in by Jack Newfield

here's a new, up-to-date version of award-winning columnist Jack Newfield’s best-selling biography of America’s boxing wealthy person, the resource for the Emmy-winning motion picture Don King: simply in America.

When Jack Newfield’s unauthorized biography of Don King first seemed in 1995 it was once hailed as the most very important items of activities journalism of the last decade. The HBO motion picture in keeping with the booklet remains to be a tv favourite. Now, for the 1st time, The existence and Crimes of Don King comes in paperback.

Jack Newfield has supplied a brand new advent and an in depth epilogue—”The disgrace of Boxing in America”—for this new edition.

Here’s what critics needed to say in regards to the prior edition:

“Jack Newfield is a author who knows the right way to have fun the wealthy complexity of yank existence whereas pulling the covers off of these monsters who threaten its very essence. within the existence and Crimes of Don King, he offers us with a publication that stings in each direction—across classification, race, career, gender, faith, nationwide limitations, media, and legislation enforcement. We examine that Don King is an American so in simple terms made up of air of mystery and con that not anyone can have invented him.”
—STANLEY CROUCH, manhattan day-by-day information columnist

“It is hard to visualize a person greater suited for inform the attention-grabbing story of Don King’s existence than Jack Newfield. within the existence and Crimes of Don King Newfield has brilliantly captured the complicated guy underneath the fancy photograph and within the technique produced a fully significant story,”
—DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian

“Jack Newfield brings a reporter’s craft and fan’s love of boxing to this examine of the advanced, fabulous promoter Don King. Newfield keeps the culture of significant writers like A. J. Liebling, Budd Schulberg, and Norman Mailer who've introduced their sharp concentration to the realm of boxing.”
—CHARLIE ROSE, PBS host

“Jack Newfield has captured Don King’s larger-than-life personality with either equity and fervour. a super investigative job!”
—NICK PILEGGI, co-author of Goodfellas and Casino

“Jack Newfield offers us with this primary finely distinct portrait. For all people with a flavor for robber barons and invincible chutzpah, this ebook is a must.”
—PETE HAMILL, writer of A ingesting Life

About the author:

Veteran journalist Jack Newfield was once a founding father of the “New Journalism” within the Nineteen Sixties as a columnist for The Village Voice. He was once later a columnist for the hot York day-by-day information and the hot York publish. He used to be a fellow of The kingdom Institute. he's the writer of 10 books, has collaborated on a variety of documentaries, and is the recipient of the George Polk Award for Investigative Journalism (1980), an Emmy for his documentary on Don King (1991), and various different awards.