Named a best book of 2011 by the San Francisco Chronicle, At the Fights is a gritty and glittering anthology of the very best writing about boxing. Here are Jack London on the immortal Jack
Johnson; Richard Wright on Joe Louis�� historic victory over Max Schmeling; A. J. Liebling�� brilliantly comic portrait of a manager who really identifies with his fighter; Jimmy Cannon on
Archie Moore, the greatest fighter of the 1950s; James Baldwin and Gay Talese on Floyd Patterson�� epic fight with Sonny Liston; George Plimpton on Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X; Norman Mailer
on the Rumble in the Jungle; Mark Kram on the Thrilla in Manila; Pete Hamill on legendary trainer and manager Cus D��mato; Mark Kriegel on Oscar De La Hoya; and David Remnick and Joyce Carol
Oates on Mike Tyson. National Book Award��inning novelist Colum McCann (Let the Great World Spin) offers a foreword and, in a new preface, John Schulian pays tribute to his co-editor, George
Kimball, who lost his battle with cancer in 2011.
