Currently reading Rob Steen's biography of Sonny Liston. Excellent stuff but tough reading if you think boxing can be defended as a noble sport, because Steen is very hostile towards it.
Joyce Carol Oates probably wrote the definitive boxing book, and I thought Thomas Hauser produced a fine biography of Muhammad Ali, if a little hagiographic at times. My question about this literature goes back to the Steen-Liston dilemma: can a fair book about boxing be written from a perspective that is largely hostile to its existence?
Joyce Carol Oates probably wrote the definitive boxing book, and I thought Thomas Hauser produced a fine biography of Muhammad Ali, if a little hagiographic at times. My question about this literature goes back to the Steen-Liston dilemma: can a fair book about boxing be written from a perspective that is largely hostile to its existence?
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