From Boxing Ring to Battlefield
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-1674-6 (ISBN)
World champion boxer Lew Jenkins fought his whole life. As a child, he fought extreme poverty during the Great Depression; in his twenties, he fought as a professional boxer and became a world champion; and at the pinnacle of his boxing career, Jenkins fought in World War II and the Korean War.
From Boxing Ring to Battlefield: The Life of War Hero Lew Jenkins details for the first time this extraordinary story. Despite his talent for boxing, Jenkins often fought and trained in drunken stupors. Although he became the world lightweight champion, he soon wasted his ring title and all his money. Jenkins eventually found purpose during World War II and the Korean War, fighting in major battles that included D-Day, Bloody Ridge, and Heartbreak Ridge. His efforts earned him one of the highest decorations for bravery, the Silver Star. Unable to find meaning in life at the peak of his boxing success, Jenkins discovered values to which he could cling during war.
From Boxing Ring to Battlefield features exclusive interviews with Lew Jenkins’s son and grandson, providing a personal perspective on the life of this complicated war hero. The first biography of Jenkins, this book will fascinate boxing fans and historians alike.
Gene Pantalone is an expert on the golden age of boxing—1920 to 1950—and Madame Bey’s boxing camp, which hosted fourteen heavyweight champions and no fewer than eighty International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees. He is a contributing writer to the boxing website The Weigh-In and author of Madame Bey’s: Home to Boxing Legends.
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: A Fighting Man
Chapter 2: Impoverished Beginnings
Chapter 3: The Toast of Broadway
Chapter 4: A Run at the Title
Chapter 5: Unstoppable
Chapter 6: Just Wanted to Have a Good Time
Chapter 7: Falling
Chapter 8: A Return to Service
Chapter 9: A Past with Jack Dempsey
Chapter 10: A Different Kind of Fight
Chapter 11: Consumed with Guilt
Chapter 12: Katie Rocks the Boxing World
Chapter 13: A Return from War
Chapter 14: Bloody Ridge
Chapter 15: Heartbreak Ridge
Chapter 16: Enlightened
Chapter 17: A Final Fight
Epilogue
Bibliography
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.10.2018 |
|---|---|
| Vorwort | John Disanto |
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 158 x 237 mm |
| Gewicht | 513 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5381-1674-X / 153811674X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5381-1674-6 / 9781538116746 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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