Browsing Tag George Plimpton

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    Fear And Loathing In Zaire

    Hunter S. Thompson is undoubtedly an icon of the “counter-culture” movement. He was also undoubtedly a miserable failure as a boxing writer. A motorcycle-racing, gun-loving, Nixon-hating, booze-swilling, narcotic-ingesting ...

    On August 26, 2021 / By
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    When We Were Kings

    With the death earlier this month of filmmaker Leon Gast, many fight fans are fondly recalling his most celebrated creation, a much-loved documentary which somehow seems as fresh ...

    On March 30, 2021 / By
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    Oct. 26, 1970: Ali vs Quarry I

    Following his successful defense of the heavyweight championship of the world against Zora Folley in March of 1967, Muhammad Ali’s boxing career came to a sudden, though not ...

    On October 26, 2020 / By
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    McIlvanney On Boxing

    A.J. Liebling will always be boxing’s literary standard bearer, his masterwork The Sweet Science and other books certain to find appreciative fans through the generations. If there’s a ...

    On September 4, 2020 / By
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    Reading The Fights

    At first glance, Reading the Fights is a compendium of insightful essays which alternate between examining the responses boxing evokes and bringing to life stories of its past, thus providing ...

    On June 14, 2020 / By
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    Shadow Box

    Even if it had nothing else going for it—something very far from the truth— Shadow Box by George Plimpton will forever remain a bastion of boxing literature because of the ...

    On March 9, 2020 / By
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    The Making of Machiavelli

    “The Rumble in the Jungle” was devised by a killer and paid for by a crook. You could reverse these tags and they would still be true. In ...

    On October 29, 2014 / By
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