Joe Louis - BOXING - First Edition

First Edition, 1978. Hardback in Fine Condition with 278 unmarked pages. Dustjacket has sunned edges & a tear, otherwise very good. Can Post
BY JOE LOUIS WITH EDNA & ART RUST.
Born 1914 on an impoverished farm in Alabama, the son of a penniless sharecropper. He was two years old when his father was put in a home for the Negro Insane. He grew up in the slums of Detroit, standing on soup lines with his family, unable to get past the sixth grade. He started boxing when he was 17, using the money his mother gave him for violin lessons. But from then on the life and career of Joe Louis Barrow sky-rocketed. Winning fight after fight, Joe knocked his way to the top- by 1937 he was the heavyweight champion of the world; his boxing talent was recognized as the greatest of the century. And along with the championship came fame and glamour - Hollywood appearances, meetings with Presidents, dates with film stars. By the time of the second Louis-Schmeling fight Joe Louis personified all of pre-war America in his dramatic knockout of the German fighter. Joe Louis was the Brown Bomber; he was America.