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Iron Mike : A Mike Tyson Reader by Daniel O'Connor (2002, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherGrand Central Publishing
ISBN-101560253568
ISBN-139781560253563
eBay Product ID (ePID)1966192
Product Key Features
Book TitleIron Mike : a Mike Tyson Reader
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2002
TopicBoxing, History, Sports
IllustratorYes
GenreSports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorDaniel O'connor
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight18.4 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-510528
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal796.83/092 B
SynopsisIron Mike collects the best writing on the tumultuous fifteen-year career of the most reviled and idolized athlete in the world, Michael Gerard Tyson. Since becoming, at age nineteen, the youngest heavyweight champion in history, Tyson's dramatic rise, fall, and continuing struggle has provoked more passionate writing, both in and out of the sports pages, than that of any other boxer since Muhammad Ali. Iron Mike is about more than boxing. Like no other athlete, Mike Tyson is at the nexus of America's cultural anxieties about race, class, masculinity, violence, and celebrity; like no other athlete his story of high drama and low comedy inspires writers to wrestle with these themes, with Tyson often no more than the occasion for the writer's own preoccupations. And Tyson has provided many such occasions: his rise to the Undisputed World Heavyweight Championship at age twenty-one; his rocky marriage to Robin Givens; his controversial conviction for the rape of Desiree Washington; his return to boxing and reclamation of the WBC and WBA belts; his biting of Evander Holyfield. Iron Mike is a kaleidoscopic portrait of a man who, for better and worse, is one of the most recognizable, popular, and defining icons of our time. The book includes selections from Joyce Carol Oates, Pete Hamill, Jose Torres, Pete Dexter, Phil Berger, Christopher Hitchens, Robert Lipsyte, Dave Anderson, Jonathan Yardley, Richard Rodriguez, Katherine Dunn, Budd Schulberg, William Plummer, David Remnick, Keith Botsworth, and others., Featuring contributions by Joyce Carol Oates, Pete Hamill, Jonathan Yardley, and others, Iron Mike collects the best writing on the tumultuous 15-year career of the most reviled and idolized athlete in the world, boxer Mike Tyson. 25 photos.
LC Classification NumberGV1132.T97I76 2002
