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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: longest fight
    sub title: in the ring with Joe Gans, boxing's first African American champion
  title info:
    title: In the ring with Joe Gans, boxing's first African American champion
  name:
    name part: Gildea, William.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Biography
  genre: Biographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2012
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 245 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
  abstract: In The longest fight, the longtime Washington Post correspondent William Gildea tells the story of the longest boxing match of the twentieth century-- between Joe Gans, the first African American boxing champion, and "Battling" Nelson, a vicious and dirty brawler-- which would stretch to forty-two rounds and last two hours and forty-eight minutes. An new rail line brought spectators from around the country, dozens of reporters came to file blow-by-blow accounts, and an entrepreneurial crew's film of the fight, shown in theaters shortly afterward, endures to this day. The longest fight also recounts something much greater-- the longer battle that Gans fought against prejudice as the premier black athlete of his time. It is a portrait of life in black America at the turn of the twentieth century, of what it was like to be the first black athlete to successfully cross the nation's gaping racial divide. Gans was smart, witty, trim, and handsome-- with one-punch knockout power and groundbreaking defensive skills-- and his courage despite discrimination prefigures the strife faced by many of America's finest athletes, including Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson, and Muhammad Ali.
  table of contents: Prologue -- Part One -- Part Two -- Epilogue.
  note: William Gildea.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-229) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Gans, Joe
  subject:
    topic: Boxers (Sports)
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: African American boxers
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Boxeurs
    geographic: États-Unis
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Boxeurs noirs américains
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Gans, Joe
  subject:
    topic: African American boxers
  subject:
    topic: Boxers (Sports)
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: GV1132.G33 G55 2012
  classification: 796.83092 B
  classification: 796.83 G468L
  identifier: 9780374280970
  identifier: 0374280975
  identifier: 2011040170
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 110930
    record change date: 20230327153328.9
    record identifier: in00004651480
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng