Jack Dempsey was perfectly suited to the time in which he fought, the time when the United States first felt the throb of its own overwhelming power. For eight years and two months after World War I, Dempsey, with his fierce good looks and matchless dedication to the kill, was heavyweight champion o[...]
Heavyweight Champion of the World from 1919 to 1926, Jack Dempsey, also known as the Manassa Mauler, began his boxing career as a skinny boy of sixteen, riding the rails and participating in hastily staged saloon bouts against miners and lumberjacks. In this incisive, fast-paced biography, Randy Rob[...]
Traditions say that in May 1637, a force of English colonists and Native allies marched undected across southern New England and surprised the Pequot village of Mystic. They trapped and killed 300-700 men, women and children. Through exaustive research from journals of the participants this book pro[...]