David Margolick - Beyond Glory
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Acclaim for David Margolicks
BEYOND GLORY
Margolick goes beyond those loaded symbols to bring alive the complex characters of the fighters. In a Seabiscuit-like turn, Margolick also captures what life was like in a very different time, when Americans were still struggling through the Depression and when they were just starting to come to terms with a burgeoning civil rights movement. And when a single sporting event could matter so much.
Sports Illustrated
Compelling. Margolick deftly moves his characters on and off stage against a backdrop of increasing tension. [He] provides a sense that by managing to unite disparate American interests behind a common cause and undermining the Aryan illusion of racial supremacy, Louis helped insure a nation for the fight ahead.
The Washington Post Book World
Engrossing. Margolicks work reminds us where we stood in terms of race and freedom then, and makes us think about where we stand now.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A knockout punch. History at its liveliest.
The Baltimore Sun
[Margolick] deserve[s] praise as much for [his] literary execution as for vividly reminding us of the night when the world held its breath waiting to find out who would come out on top in a boxing match.
The Boston Globe
Margolick does a wonderful job of recreating an era. Books like Beyond Glory remind us how transcendent a sport boxing can be.
The New York Times
Margolicks painstakingly researched book brings to life the ambiguities and tensions of the pre-war years. Beyond Glory is likely to remain the definitive account of the Louis/Schmeling encounters and why they mattered.
The Daily Telegraph (London)
An illuminating study of the period as well as the match. A meticulous account of how the boxers lives were buffeted by the political chaos and racial segregation of their age.
BusinessWeek
[Margolick] lets the argot of sportswriting in the 1930s tell the story. [He] does a fine job of looking into the smaller ironies and ambiguities of a unique American life and the picture which emerges of complex American attitudes to race. Margolicks definitive book does the event and the characters who lived it the justice they deserve.
Irish Times
Brilliant and colorful. The two principles are deftly drawn. A great book, packed with great writing and memorable moments.
The Flint Journal
This peerless account from heavyweight author David Margolick deftly evokes the times and skillfully puts the controversy into its rightful con text.
Scotland on Sunday
Beyond Glory [is] a breathless stew of narrative. Thickly detailed.
The Nation
Superb. History at its liveliest. Because of Margolicks book, the two menand all they came to symbolizeseem alive again.
The Charlotte Observer
A definitive work. [Margolick] is a smooth and talented writer. It might be hard for todays fans to understand why the fight seemed so significant. It wasand still is. Beyond Glory tells us why, brilliantly.
The Washington Times
The most extensively researched book on Joe Louis ever written. [Margolick] has done his homework and then some.
The New York Post
David Margolick
BEYOND GLORY
David Margolick is a longtime contributing editor at Vanity Fair, where he writes about culture, the media, and politics. He served as national legal affairs editor at The New York Times, where he wrote the weekly At the Bar column for seven years. He is the author most recently of Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song. This is his fourth book. He lives in New York City.
BOOKS BY DAVID MARGOLICK
Strange Fruit:
The Biography of a Song
At the Bar:
The Passions and Peccadilloes of American Lawyers
Undue Influence:
The Epic Battle for the Johnson & Johnson Fortune
Beyond Glory:
Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink
To my mother and father
P EOPLE IN THIS BOOK are occasionally quoted talking in dialect, as rendered by someone writing about them at the time. In the belief that contemporaneous documents are precious, and that the insights they provide, both deliberate and inadvertent, must take precedence over evolving standards of fairness or taste, all such quotes appear precisely as they did originally. Readers can be trusted, I believe, to decide for themselves how those quoted must have spoken.
O N THE MORNING OF J UNE 22, 1938, the New York Journal-American plastered an enormous cartoon across the front page of its sports section. Ringside Tonight! it was titled. It depicted a darkened stadium topped by a circle of flags silhouetted against the evening sky and enclosing a small, illuminated square. Inside that square were two tiny figures, one black, one white, heading toward each other with their arms raised, about to come to blows. Looking on was a mob of people discernible near the action, and visible in the distance only as tiny specks of light. And sitting by the ropes was a giant anthropomorphic globe, with oversize bug eyes and a furrowed brow superimposed over the lines of latitude and longitude. The orb held a small sign, which read, MAIN BOUT, JOE LOUIS, U.S. VS. MAX SCHMELING, GERMANY .
Had you picked up any other newspaper that day, in Berlin or London or Tokyo or Johannesburg or Moscow, the message would have been the same: something extraordinary was about to happen in New York City. Around ten p.m., a timekeeper would strike a small bell, and much of a world still unaccustomed to acting in unison would cease whatever it was doing and come to attention. In Yankee Stadium, nearly seventy thousand fans would lean forward in their seats; throughout the rest of the world, a hundred million people or morethe largest audience in history for anythingwould gather around their radios. Everything else would suddenly cease to matter.
Wars, involving the fate of nations, rage elsewhere on this globe, the New York Mirror had declared that morning, but the eyes of the world will be focused tonight on a two-man battle in a ribbon of light stabbing the darkness of the Yankee Stadium. The Angriff, the mouthpiece of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, had little in common with the Mirror, a tabloid read primarily by working-class American Jews. But regarding this point, the two newspapers agreed. On this day, the Angriff observed, two men will hold an entire world in the utmost tension. Twenty million Germans would join the sixty million Americans who would be listening, even though it would be three oclock the next morning in Berlin when the gong sounded. Much of Germany would simply not go to bed. Five months before Kristallnacht, the Night of the Broken Glassthe pogrom that would signal the end of any remaining semblance of normal Jewish life in Germanythe Nazi state would experience what one newspaper called The Night of the Bright Windows.
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