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  • A Flame of Pure Fire

  • Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20s
  • De: Roger Kahn
  • Narrado por: Kevin Yon
  • Duración: 17 h y 6 m
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (68 calificaciones)

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A Flame of Pure Fire

De: Roger Kahn
Narrado por: Kevin Yon
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Resumen del Editor

Through most of the Roaring '20s, Jack Dempsey was the heavyweight champion of the world. With his fierce good looks and matchless dedication to the kill, he was a fighter perfectly suited to his time.

In A Flame of Pure Fire, renowned sports writer Roger Kahn not only chronicles the thrilling, brutal bouts of the Manassa Mauler, but also illustrates how the tumultuous 1920s shaped Dempsey - and how the champ, in turn, left an indelible mark on sports and American history.

©2000 Roger Kahn (P)2009 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
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"One doesn't have to be a fan of boxing to be enthralled by this story of a nice guy who didn't finish last." ( The New Yorker)

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“Jack retired the word Champ”

Great story of a great champion, who was a “gentleman and a gentle man”. An American hero…

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The roaring twenties

I found a lot of history in the Jack Dempsey piece. it was a well thought and researched piece that I truly enjoyed.

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Narrator is horrible

The narrator makes this unlistenable, I was so excited for this title but the reader fails the writer.

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Ambitious but poorly executed

Roger Kahn attempts to use Jack Dempsey as the centerpiece of a sprawling history of the 1920s and meditation on memory. The book is clearly coming from a deep place of personal reflection and meaning. Unfortunately, it just never comes together. It feels like segments of a dozen books have been placed into a blender at times, wildly bouncing around chronologically and abruptly shifting to outside context that is only tenuously, if at all, connected to Dempsey. This strikes me as a prime example of a great writer (and Kahn at his best is just that) who reaches a level of esteem where an editor is either too intimidated or trusting to demand changes to a manuscript. This is an often rewarding listen, but structurally it is a mess. It also features too many self-absorbed personal asides from Kahn, as if Dempsey's value is only how he impacted the life of one writer. For example, to explain the psychology of boxers heading into a match, Kahn tells a long anecdote about his own pugilistic turn at summer camp as a child. This section, like much of the book, reads as a conversational journey through Kahn's memory rather than a functional biography of a great heavyweight.

A note on the narrator: The tone and delivery are largely good, but he has an embarrassing number of mispronunciations. It's listenable, but prepare to wince.

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