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An all-access biography of the boxer whose rivalry with Muhammad Ali riveted fans and whose legacy in American sports and society endures.
"A comprehensive knockout of a biography. . . . A beautiful book." -Wall Street Journal
History will remember the rivalry of Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali as one for the ages, a trilogy of extraordinary fights that transcended the world of sports and crossed into a sociocultural drama that divided the country.
Joe Frazier was a much more complex figure than just his rivalry with Ali would suggest. In this riveting and nuanced portrayal, acclaimed sports writer Mark Kram, Jr. unlinks Frazier from Ali and for the first time gives a full-bodied accounting of Frazier's life, a journey that began as the youngest of thirteen children packed in small farm house, encountering the bigotry and oppression of the Jim Crow South, and continued with his voyage north at age fifteen to develop as a fighter in Philadelphia.
Tracing Frazier's life through his momentous bouts with the likes of Ali and George Foreman and the developing perception of him as the anti-Ali in the eyes of blue-collar America, Kram follows the boxer through his retirement in 1981, exploring his relationship with his son, the would-be heavyweight Marvis, and his fragmented home life as well as the uneasy place that Ali continued to occupy in his thoughts.
A propulsive and richly textured narrative that is also a powerful story about race and class in America, Smokin' Joe is unparalleled in its scope, depth, and access and promises to be the definitive biography of a towering American figure whose life was galvanized by conflict and whose mark has proven lasting.
"This book is a revelation, a powerhouse, a thing of beauty, and . . . a knockout. . . . A biography worthy in every way of the champ's greatness." -Jonathan Eig, bestselling author of Ali: A Life
"Marl Kram, Jr., much, much more than splendidly gets to the strange anomaly that was Smokin' Joe. . . . His life story is worth reading." -Richard Ford
"Mark Kram, Jr.'s sympathetic and thoroughly researched Smokin' Joe is a worthy introduction to an underappreciated American athlete." -Joyce Carol Oates
Mark Kram, Jr. won the 2013 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing for his first book, Like Any Normal Day: A Story of Devotion. Articles by him have appeared in The Best American Sports Writing and will be included in the forthcoming anthology, The Great American Sports Page. The Society of Professional Journalists honored him with the 2011 Sigma Delta Chi Award for feature writing. Formerly a sports writer in Philadelphia, Detroit, and Baltimore, he is the son of the late Mark Kram, the acclaimed journalist for Sports Illustrated and author of Ghosts of Manila: The Fateful Blood Feud between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. He has edited a collection of his father's magazine pieces, Great Men Die Twice: The Selected Works of Mark Kram. He lives outside Philadelphia.
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