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Paperback / softback. New. Battling Siki (1887-1925) was once one of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world and was written about by a host of great writers, including George Bernard Shaw, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Janet Flanner, and Ernest Hemingway. This is a biography Siki.
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Battling Siki: A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s Paperback - 2008
by Peter Benson
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Battling Siki (18871925) was once one of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world and was written about by a host of great writers, including George Bernard Shaw, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Janet Flanner, and Ernest Hemingway. Peter Benson s lively biography of the first African to win a world championship in boxing delves into the complex world of sports, race, colonialism, and the cult of personality in the early twentieth century."
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- Title Battling Siki: A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s
- Author Peter Benson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition New
- Pages 360
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, Arkansas, U.S.A.
- Date 2008-07
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781557288882 / 1557288887
- Weight 1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 8.76 x 6.72 x 1.05 in (22.25 x 17.07 x 2.67 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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