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Ring of Hate: The Brown Bomber and Hitler's Hero: Joe Louis v. Max Schmeling and the Bitter Propaganda War - Softcover
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More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was black man against white man, a showdown between democracy and totalitarianism.
No single event in the history of boxing generated as much excitement or such extremes of emotions. It was the night Louis hit a peak of fistic perfection, hardly missing a punch as he destroyed the challenger inside three brutal minutes.
Following the Second World War, the two boxers' lives took contrasting turns. Louis was hounded over unpaid taxes and drifted into a hazy world of drugs, paranoia and ill health, eventually dying in 1981. Schmeling, meanwhile, became a successful businessman and remained active until his death in 2005.
Ring of Hate is a gripping story of two men drawn together by their chosen profession and divided by the cruel demands of warring nations.
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Patrick Myler is a writer and boxing historian. His articles have appeared in The Ring, Boxing News, Boxing Monthly and British Boxing Yearbook.
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Ring of hate
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Mainstream Publishing, Uk, 2006
ISBN 10: 1845961285
ISBN 13: 9781845961282
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. 256 pages. Joe Louis vs Max SchmelingRing of hate tells the story of one of the greatest sports events of the twentie th century, the heavy-weight championship bout between Germany's Max Schmeling a nd America's Brown Bomber, Joe Louis - at a time when both men carried their n ation's hopes on their shoulders. More than the world heavyweight championship w as at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on June 22, 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the fight was perceived as a contest between nations, races, a nd political ideologies - the symbol of a much vaster struggle. Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels boasted that the Aryan Schmeling would crush his infer ior black opponent. President Franklin D. Roosevelt told Louis, his guest at th e White House, that America needs muscles like yours to beat Germany. For Loui s, this was also his chance to avenge the only loss in his brilliant professiona l career - by a knockout - to the same Max Schmeling two years earlier. Artikel-Nr. 2804aa
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