Jack Johnson - The Galveston Giant - CD
The Jack Johnson compilation on CD- 56-Page collection of newspaper clippings
- Book : Heavy-Weight Champions book, 1910
- Book : The Life and Battles of Jack Johnson, 1912
A free sample of the Jack Johnson Collection is availalble to download here.
See below for full descriptions.
News Clippings Collection
This 56-page collection of newspaper clippings contains more than 265 separate articles and snippets about Jack Johnson and his fellow pugilists. These were published in American newspapers from 1900 through to 1910 with the bulk of them focusing on the lead up to, and ensuing "Fight of the Century" against James Jeffries in Reno, Nevada, July 4, 1910.The reports are historically fascinating, giving an insight into the controversy surrounding this heavyweight champion from the point of view of the journalists and commentators of his day.
The collection is fully indexed.
IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT NEWS CLIPPINGS:
The source material for these news clippings is printed on newsprint and is more than 100 years old. This means that on rare occasions an area of a clipping may be difficult to read. Generally we don't include low-quality news clippings unless we feel the content may well arouse the curiosity of our readers.
Please be warned that these stories appear in the vernacular of the time and as such do contain references considered racially offensive.
BOOK #1
Heavy-Weight Champions
W.W. Naughton
John Kitchen Jr Co
1910
208 pages
Being an account of every Heavy-Weight Championship Contest from Sullivan and Corbett to jeffries and Johnson, together with a Complete Record of Every Contestant, Extended Sketches of Jeffries and Johnson, and Story of the Making of the Big Match. Superbly illustrated.
BOOK #2
The Life and Battles of Jack Johnson
Champion Pugilist of the World
Richard K Fox Publishing Company
1912
89-page Fox's Athletic Library book on the Life and Battles of Jack Johnson, champion pugilist of the world. This book also contains the complete records of John Sullivan, James Corbett, Robert Fitzsimmons, James Jeffries, Tommy Burns, Peter Jackson and Jim Flynn. 21 photographs complete this brief yet concise look at the great turn-of-the-century fighters.
Along with the two books listed above, this data CD contains a collection of historical newspaper articles which were printed 1900-1910. The articles are in PDF format. You are not purchasing the original newspaper articles.
This data CD is for use in your computers CD-Rom/DVD drive. It will not work in a regular (audio) CD player or in your television's DVD player.
If you don't understand this, please contact me prior to purchase.
These books are in Adobe PDF format. Adobe® Reader®, a program already installed on most personal computers, is required to read the books and will automatically open them. In the rare event that your computer may not have Acrobat installed, you can download the latest version for FREE at www.adobe.com.
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