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Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR's 1936 Landslide Victory and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal by David Pietrusza
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £20.10Winner of the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal for US HistoryFrom the acclaimed author of 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents and 1960: LJB vs JFK vs Nixon-The Epic Campaign that... -
Boxing Like the Champs 2: More Lessons from Boxing's Greatest Fighters by Mark Hatmaker 9781935937807
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.76Get a load of just some of the recently unearthed gold in this volume: 1. Jack Johnson's "Biceps Punch." 2. Gentleman Jim's Not-Quite-a-Jab. 3. Joe Louis's "Attacking the Buckler" strategy. 4... -
Joe Louis: Hard Times Man Randy Roberts 9780300177633
Booksplease Price: £34.12The definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest sports figures Joe Louis defended his heavyweight boxing title an astonishing twenty-five times and reigned as world champion for... -
Pro Football Championships Before the Super Bowl: A Year-by-Year History, 1926-1965 by Joseph S. Page 9780786448098
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.99While the Super Bowl has become a worldwide cultural event, the annual league championship games had a long history even before the first Super Bowl in January, 1967. From the first American... -
Farewell to Sport by Paul Gallico
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £15.62For fourteen years during the golden age of sports, Paul Gallico was one of America's ace sportswriters. He saw them all-the stars and the hams, the immortals and the phonies in boxing, wrestling,... -
Broken Dreams: Another Year Inside Boxing by Thomas Hauser 9781682261798
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.36Each year, readers, writers, and critics alike look forward to Thomas Hauser's newest collection of articles about the contemporary boxing scene. As Booklist has proclaimed, "Many journalists have... -
Boxing Like the Champs by Mark Hatmaker 9781935937760
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £8.99How did the old school, all time champs - like Jack Dempsey, Kid McCoy, Sonny Liston and Stanley Ketchel - do it? This manual examines some of the best and most interesting fighters in boxing history... -
Baddest Man: The making of Mike Tyson by Mark Kriegal 9781529958966
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.05On a defining evening of the 1980s, Donald Trump hosted celebrities and high rollers in a Jersey Shore town to witness 21-year-old Mike Tyson knock out Michael Spinks in just 91 seconds, earning more... -
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12 GREATEST ROUNDS OF BOXING by 9781861058058 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.36Boxing's clolourful history is filled with chapters of high drama and simmering controversy. Many boxing fans are familiar with the outcome of the most memorable bouts, but few know the secrets... -
Black and White: The Birth of Modern Boxing by Brian Dobbs 9781785318900
Booksplease Price: £26.11Black and White: The Birth of Modern Boxing is the definitive history of the early years of transatlantic pugilism. It reveals the poisonous racism disfiguring the sport and the black boxers fighting... -
Jess Willard: Heavyweight Champion of the World (1915-1919) by Arly Allen 9781476664446
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.29This is the first full-length biography of Jess Willard who won the heavyweight boxing title in 1915 by defeating Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion. As such this book brings new... -
Primo Carnera: The Life and Career of the Heavyweight Boxing Champion by Joseph S. Page 9780786448104
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.99At over six and a half feet tall and nearly 300 pounds, heavyweight champion Primo Carnera was a giant for his times, but today "the Ambling Alp" is too often written off as an unskilled oaf and a... -
Tex Rickard: Boxing's Greatest Promoter Colleen Aycock 9780786465910
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.99Whether opening saloons, raising cattle, or promoting sporting events, George Lewis "Tex" Rickard (1870-1929) possessed a drive to be the best. After an early career as a cowboy and Texas sheriff,... -
When the Heavyweight Title Mattered: Five Championship Fights That Captivated the World, 1910-1971 John G. Robertson 9781476678573
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59The world heavyweight boxing championship once transcended the sport, conferring global renown. This book gives detailed coverage to five legendary championship bouts that captivated audiences... -
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Pilgrimage: A Journey Through Colorado's History and Culture by Professor Stephen May 9780804008839 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.25From Cripple Creek to the Santa Fe Trail, Mesa Verde to the mountain towns of Leadville and Steamboat Springs, Colorado provides travelers and natives with a spectrum of beauty that is both awesome... -
Immortals of American Boxing Don Stradley 9781922662279
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £16.93The Immortals of American Boxing celebrates our greatest ever fighters. It chooses the best of the best from over a century of the sport's colorful history. Renowned boxing writer Don Stradley... -
Heroes and Ballyhoo by 9781597974127
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.46A handful of star athletes, along with their promoters and journalists, created America's sports entertainment industry during the 1920s, the Golden Age of American sports. The period had an... -
Jeet Kune Do: The Arsenal of Self-Expression Teri Tom 9780804847797
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.58Apply the combat science of Bruce Lee's revolutionary martial art! In a natural progression from the author's earlier work: The Straight Lead: The Core of Bruce Lee's Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do, Teri Tom... -
Lifetimes: The Great War to the Stock Market Crash--American History Through Biography and Primary Documents by Neil W. Hamilton 9780313317996
Booksplease Price: £81.53The years between the first world war and the great stock market crash marked the arrival of the United States of America as a world military, business, scientific, and cultural leader. Americans... -
Baddest Man: The making of Mike Tyson by Mark Kriegal 9781529958942
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53On a defining evening of the 1980s, Donald Trump hosted celebrities and high rollers in a Jersey Shore town to witness 21-year-old Mike Tyson knock out Michael Spinks in just 91 seconds, earning more... -
Rockne and Jones: Notre Dame, USC, and the Greatest Rivalry of the Roaring Twenties by Thomas Rupp 9781606353301
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.83Notre Dame's rallying cry was once "Win one for the Gipper." The football series with Army that spawned that memorable slogan has long since faded into history, but every year the Irish continue to... -
Fire Prevention in Modern Construction: A Practical Guide Matthew J. Bourque 9781032698533
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Fires continue to be an increasing threat to buildings and construction sites. Under construction, buildings are very vulnerable to fire hazards. Modifications made to buildings over time, whether... -
Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X: The Fatal Friendship (A Young Readers Adaptation of Blood Brothers) by Johnny Smith 9780316478854
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Discover the remarkable relationship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X, and how their bond affected the movement for Black pride and independence in the 1960s in this nonfiction book for young... -
Racing for America: The Horserace of the Century and the Redemption of a Sport by James C. Nicholson 9780813180649
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £23.73On October 20, 1923, at Belmont Park in New York, Kentucky Derby champion Zev toed the starting line alongside Epsom Derby winner Papyrus, the top colt from England, to compete for a $100,000 purse... -
The Arc of Boxing: The Rise and Decline of the Sweet Science by Mike Silver 9780786493876
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.84Are today's boxers better than their predecessors, or is modern boxing a shadow of its former self? Boxing historians discuss the socioeconomic and demographic changes that have affected the quality,... -
Red Grange and the Rise of Modern Football by John M. Carroll 9780252071669
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.96Before the Super Bowl, even before the NFL, there was Red Grange. Catapulted into the public eye in 1924 by scoring four touchdowns in twelve minutes for the University of Illinois, the "Galloping... -
Legendary Sports Writers of the Golden Age: Grantland Rice, Red Smith, Shirley Povich, and W. C. Heinz by Lee W. Congdon 9781442277519
Booksplease Price: £37.82During the 1920s-the Golden Age of sports-sports writers gained their own recognition while covering such athletes as Babe Ruth, Bobby Jones, Jack Dempsey, and Red Grange. The top journalists of the... -
Waterman: The Life and Times of Duke Kahanamoku by David Davis 9780803254770
Booksplease Price: £24.36Waterman is the first comprehensive biography of Duke Kahanamoku (1890-1968): swimmer, surfer, Olympic gold medalist, Hawaiian icon, waterman. Long before Michael Phelps and Mark Spitz made their... -
Night Train: A Biography of Sonny Liston by Nick Tosches
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £6.99A breathtakingly brutal and evocative account of the life of infamous boxing world champion Sonny Liston'Dazzling . . . An unforgettable journey to some of boxing's darkest places' Steve Bunce,... -
American Colossus: Big Bill Tilden and the Creation of Modern Tennis by Allen M. Hornblum 9780803288119
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.70Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones, and Bill Tilden were the legendary quartet of the "Golden Age of Sports" in the 1920s. They transformed their respective athletic disciplines and captured the... -
Red Grange: The Life and Legacy of the NFL's First Superstar by Chris Willis 9781538101940
Booksplease Price: £48.08In celebration of the National Football League's 100th season in the fall of 2019, noted NFL historian Chris Willis brings to life the story of Red Grange, the nation's first professional football... -
Unbeaten: The Triumphs and Tragedies of Rocky Marciano by Mike Stanton 9781509822508
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Unbeaten is one of the best sports books I've read in years.' - Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A Life.Rocky Marciano accomplished a feat that eluded legendary champions like Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey,... -
Satan's Playground: Mobsters and Movie Stars at America's Greatest Gaming Resort by Paul J. Vanderwood
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.19Satan's Playground chronicles the rise and fall of the tumultuous and lucrative gambling industry that developed just south of the U.S.-Mexico border in the early twentieth century. As prohibitions...