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UNBEATEN: Rocky Marciano's Fight for Perfection in a Crooked World
Undersized for a heavyweight, with short arms and stubby legs, Rocky Marciano accomplished a feat that eluded legendary champions like Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey, Muhammad Ali, and Mike Tyson: he never lost a professional fight. When he retired in 1956, his record was a perfect 49-0.
An Italian immigrant son who feared a life in the factory, Marciano came off the canvas to win the title in a bloody and epic battle, and overcame injury and doubt to rule boxing when it was one of America's most popular and corrupt sports. He packed a devastating punch with an innocent nickname, Suzie Q, and knew presidents, movie stars and Mafia bosses. He also grew disillusioned by the way organized crime dominated the sport. He stood out in boxing like a rose in a garbage dump, one sportswriter said. But he also fought his own private demons.
In the hands of bestselling author Mike Stanton, Rocky's biography is more than just a boxing story it's a classic American tale of immigrant dreams, exceptional talent wedded to exceptional ambitions, compromises in the service of a greater good, astounding success, disillusionment, and a quest to discover what it all meant.
UNBEATEN is the story of a remarkable champion, a sport that was rotten at its core, and a country that may have expected too much from its heroes. Like Suzie Q, it will knock you off your feet.
Mike Stanton was a sports writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The Providence Journal for 28 years. His first book, The Prince of Providence: The True Story of Buddy Cianci, America's Most Notorious Mayor, Some Wiseguys, and the Feds (Random House, 2003), was a New York Times Bestseller [as well as a Wall Street Journal and National Bestseller], received terrific reviews, went through eight printings, netted over 80,000 copies, with film rights optioned by Michael Corrente, who is developing a feature based on David Mamet's screenplay adaptation of the book. Stanton is currently an associate professor of journalism at the University of Connecticut. His work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Columbia Journalism Review, and Sports Illustrated. He has appeared on CNN, CBS Sunday Morning and the PBS NewsHour, among other media outlets.
An Italian immigrant son who feared a life in the factory, Marciano came off the canvas to win the title in a bloody and epic battle, and overcame injury and doubt to rule boxing when it was one of America's most popular and corrupt sports. He packed a devastating punch with an innocent nickname, Suzie Q, and knew presidents, movie stars and Mafia bosses. He also grew disillusioned by the way organized crime dominated the sport. He stood out in boxing like a rose in a garbage dump, one sportswriter said. But he also fought his own private demons.
In the hands of bestselling author Mike Stanton, Rocky's biography is more than just a boxing story it's a classic American tale of immigrant dreams, exceptional talent wedded to exceptional ambitions, compromises in the service of a greater good, astounding success, disillusionment, and a quest to discover what it all meant.
UNBEATEN is the story of a remarkable champion, a sport that was rotten at its core, and a country that may have expected too much from its heroes. Like Suzie Q, it will knock you off your feet.
Mike Stanton was a sports writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The Providence Journal for 28 years. His first book, The Prince of Providence: The True Story of Buddy Cianci, America's Most Notorious Mayor, Some Wiseguys, and the Feds (Random House, 2003), was a New York Times Bestseller [as well as a Wall Street Journal and National Bestseller], received terrific reviews, went through eight printings, netted over 80,000 copies, with film rights optioned by Michael Corrente, who is developing a feature based on David Mamet's screenplay adaptation of the book. Stanton is currently an associate professor of journalism at the University of Connecticut. His work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Columbia Journalism Review, and Sports Illustrated. He has appeared on CNN, CBS Sunday Morning and the PBS NewsHour, among other media outlets.
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Published 2018-06-01 by Henry Holt |