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The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America, Updated Edition
by Elliott J. Gorn
Cornell University Press, 336 pp., $19.95
John L. Sullivan, one of the most celebrated Americans of the nineteenth century, officially stepped into the ring for the final time on September 7, 1892. The flabby champion, a symbol of Gilded Age excesses, faced a fit San Franciscan with a perfect pompadour named James J. Corbett. “Gentleman Jim,” as he would eventually be known, learned to fight not in the streets but at a sparring club. He even had a few years of college behind him.
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