Terror in the City of Champions

Terror in the City of Champions
Author: Tom Stanton
Publsiher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2016-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781493018185

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A New York Times Bestseller Detroit, mid-1930s: In a city abuzz over its unrivaled sports success, gun-loving baseball fan Dayton Dean became ensnared in the nefarious and deadly Black Legion. The secretive, Klan-like group was executing a wicked plan of terror, murdering enemies, flogging associates, and contemplating armed rebellion. The Legion boasted tens of thousands of members across the Midwest, among them politicians and prominent citizens—even, possibly, a beloved athlete. Terror in the City of Champions opens with the arrival of Mickey Cochrane, a fiery baseball star who roused the Great Depression’s hardest-hit city by leading the Tigers to the 1934 pennant. A year later he guided the team to its first championship. Within seven months the Lions and Red Wings follow in football and hockey—all while Joe Louis chased boxing’s heavyweight crown. Amidst such glory, the Legion’s dreadful toll grew unchecked: staged “suicides,” bodies dumped along roadsides, high-profile assassination plots. Talkative Dayton Dean’s involvement would deepen as heroic Mickey’s Cochrane’s reputation would rise. But the ballplayer had his own demons, including a close friendship with Harry Bennett, Henry Ford’s brutal union buster. Award-winning author Tom Stanton weaves a stunning tale of history, crime, and sports. Richly portraying 1930s America, Terror in the City of Champions features a pageant of colorful figures: iconic athletes, sanctimonious criminals, scheming industrial titans, a bigoted radio priest, a love-smitten celebrity couple, J. Edgar Hoover, and two future presidents, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. It is a rollicking true story set at the confluence of hard luck, hope, victory, and violence. .

Greek Tragedy

Greek Tragedy
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1977
Genre: Greek drama (Tragedy)
ISBN: 9182736450XXX

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Greek Tragedy

Greek Tragedy
Author: J. T. Sheppard
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2012-03-22
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781107622227

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A 1911 account of the origins and characteristics of Greek tragedies, discussing the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.

The First Black Boxing Champions

The First Black Boxing Champions
Author: Colleen Aycock,Mark Scott
Publsiher: McFarland
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780786461882

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This volume presents fifteen chapters of biography of African American and black champions and challengers of the early prize ring. They range from Tom Molineaux, a slave who won freedom and fame in the ring in the early 1800s; to Joe Gans, the first African American world champion; to the flamboyant Jack Johnson, deemed such a threat to white society that film of his defeat of former champion and “Great White Hope” Jim Jeffries was banned across much of the country. Photographs, period drawings, cartoons, and fight posters enhance the biographies. Round-by-round coverage of select historic fights is included, as is a foreword by Hall-of-Fame boxing announcer Al Bernstein.

Information Bulletin

Information Bulletin
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 598
Release: 1943
Genre: World War, 1939-1945
ISBN: IND:30000108568423

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USSR Information Bulletin

USSR Information Bulletin
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 1390
Release: 1943
Genre: World War, 1939-1945
ISBN: HARVARD:HL1GHX

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The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States Feature Films

The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States  Feature Films
Author: American Film Institute
Publsiher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 990
Release: 1997
Genre: Motion pictures
ISBN: 0520209702

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The Champions of the American Prize Ring

The Champions of the American Prize Ring
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1881
Genre: Boxers (Sports)
ISBN: UIUC:30112023508879

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