Flame of Pure Fire (Paperback: Harvest: 496 pages)
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Product Details: Flame of Pure Fire
| Author: | Roger Kahn |
| Format: | Paperback: Harvest: 496 pages. |
| Publisher: | Harcourt Brace & Co (09/01/2000) |
| ISBN: | 0156014149 |
| ISBN13: | 9780156014144 |
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Pro Reviews: Flame of Pure Fire
Kahn's Dempsey is a lovable lion whose roar was the voice of the zeitgeist....Though Kahn recycles Dempsey stories available elsewhere...what ignites A FLAME OF PURE FIRE is its author's personal passion....[This book] oozes with infectious affection for a flawed hero of his time.
Roger Kahn has the benefit of hindsight. With A FLAME OF PURE FIRE, the great sportswriter nominates the heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey as the man best suited to represent his kaleidoscopic era....Kahn has chosen well: A FLAME OF PURE FIRE reclaims the world of sport, so often dismissed as a brain-erasing opiate for the masses, as a sweeping, literary popular metaphor....'Urgent, restless, roistering are words that come to mind,' he writes in his prologue. With impeccable timing and finesse, just like his subject, Kahn nails that feeling in A FLAME OF PURE FIRE. This is nostalgia at its best.
Publisher Notes: Flame of Pure Fire
- From 1919 to 1927, Jack Dempsey was the heavyweight champion of the world. With his fierce good looks and matchless dedication to the kill, he was a fighter perfectly suited to the Roaring '20s. In A Flame of Pure Fire, award-winning and renowned sports writer Roger Kahn, a personal friend of Dempsey's, tells the extraordinary story of a man and a country growing to maturity in a blaze of strength and exuberance. With passion and precision, Kahn not only chronicles the thrilling, brutal bouts of the "Manassa Mauler" but also illustrates how the wild and raucous 1920s shaped Dempsey, and how the champ, in turn, left an indelible mark on sports and American history. An accomplished and insightful observation on how sports can measure a society's evolution, Roger Kahn finds the heart of America in the story of the most famous athlete of his time, the man John Lardner once called "a flame of pure fire, at last a hero."
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