Dempsey

By the Man Himself

Jack Dempsey, Bob Considine

• Publisher: Papamoa Press
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781787204751

"To millions there has never a fighter like Jack Dempsey, and there never will be again."
Originally published in 1960, this is the autobiography from boxing heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey himself, as told to U.S. sports writers Bob Considine and Bill Slocum.

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• DEDICATION
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• 1 - THE MOVE WEST
• 2 - MANASSA’S MY HOME
• 3 - OUR GYM IS A CHICKEN COOP
• 4 - EARLY YEARS IN THE MINES
• 5 - FIGHTING ON THE MOVE
• 6 - KID BLACKIE NO MORE
• 7 - ENTER MAXINE
• 8 - NEW YORK-THAT WONDERFUL TOWN
• 9 - I SHOULD HAVE WARMED UP
• 10 - A LETTER FROM JACK KEARNS
• 11 - OFF AND RUNNING AT LAST
• 12 - THE BALLYHOO BEGINS
• 13 - FINALLY, A FOLLOWING
• 14 - OF TEX RICKARD AND JESS WILLARD
• 15 - SIGNING FOR THE BIG FIGHT
• 16 - TRAINING IN TOLEDO
• 17 - “I DID IT! I’M THE CHAMP!”
• 18 - DAREDEVIL JACK AND THE SLACKER TRIAL
• 19 - THE FIRST MILLION-DOLLAR GATE
• 20 - DAPPER GEORGES CARPENTIER
• 21 - THE WILD BULL OF THE PAMPAS
• 22 - ESTELLE TAYLOR VS. DOC KEARNS
• 23 - WE BOMB IN NEW HAVEN
• 24 - TUNNEY, THE NEW CHAMP
• 25 - THE LONG COUNT
• 26 - A FRIEND DIES-A MARRIAGE ENDS
• 27 - HANNAH WILLIAMS
• 28 - IN COAST GUARD UNIFORM
• 29 - DEANNA
• 30 - JACK KEARNS STRIKES AGAIN
• 31 - BIRTHDAY PARTY
• REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER