The Queen of the Ring: Sex, Muscles, Diamonds, and the Making of an American LegendOpen Road + Grove/Atlantic, 13 lip 2010 - 368 The story of Mildred Burke, the longest reigning champion of female wrestling, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Kings of Cocaine. In this in-depth account, journalist Jeff Leen pulls back the curtain on a forgotten era when a petite midwesterner used her beauty and brawn to dominate America’s most masculine sport. At only five feet two, Mildred Burke was an unlikely candidate for the ring. A waitress barely scraping by on Depression-era tips, she saw her way out when she attended her first wrestling match. When women were still struggling for equality with men, Burke regularly fought—and beat—male wrestlers. Rippling with muscle and dripping with diamonds, she walked the fine line between pin-up beauty and hardened brawler. An unforgettable slice of Americana, The Queen of the Ring captures the golden age of wrestling, when one gritty, glamorous woman rose through the ranks to take her place in athletic history. “Jeff Leen has made a fabulous contribution to the sports-history canon. The Queen of the Ring is a marvelous evocation of an era, and a riveting portrait of a one-of-a-kind American moll.” —Sally Jenkins, author of The Real All Americans |
Spis treści
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Becoming Champion | 50 |
Building the Business | 68 |
Pulchritude on Parade | 86 |
Mat Mamas Maul for Millions | 97 |
Billy Wolfes Harem | 114 |
The Public Likes the Puss | 127 |
The Golden Age | 140 |
12 | 162 |
Inne wydania - Wyświetl wszystko
The Queen of the Ring: Sex, Muscles, Diamonds, and the Making of an American ... Jeff Leen Podgląd niedostępny - 2009 |
The Queen of the Ring: Sex, Muscles, Diamonds, and the Making of an American ... Jeff Leen Podgląd niedostępny - 2010 |
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