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Author: Richard Bak
Hardcover · September 1, 1998
328 Pages
Joe Louis broke racial barriers and brought America to its feet when he knocked out German boxer Max Schmeling in 1938. He reigned as the U.S. Heavyweight champion for a record 12 years, and opened doors for such future legends as Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson and Sugar Ray Robinson.
Joe Louis depicts the fighter’s life from his beginnings in a sharecropper’s Alabama cabin to his teen years in Detroit, to his rise to fame as a boxer.
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