Counterpunch

Author : Meg Frisbee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780295744322
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Counterpunch written by Meg Frisbee and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boxing was popular in the American West long before Las Vegas became its epicenter. However, not everyone in the region was a fan. Counterpunch examines how the sport's meteoric rise in popularity in the West ran concurrently with a growing backlash among Progressive Era social reformers who saw boxing as barbaric. These tensions created a morality war that pitted state officials against city leaders, boxing promoters against social reformers, and fans against religious groups. Historian Meg Frisbee focuses on several legendary heavyweight prizefights of the period and the protests they inspired to explain why western geography, economy, and culture ultimately helped the sport's supporters defeat its detractors. A fascinating look at early American boxing, Counterpunch showcases fighters such as "Gentleman" Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, and Jack Johnson, the first African American heavyweight champ, and it provides an entertaining way to understand both the growth of the American West and the history of this popular--and controversial--sport.

Author : Ira Berkow
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1623688221
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Counterpunch written by Ira Berkow and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the period between 1967 and 2005, this compilation includes 84 of Pulitzer Prize&–winning author Ira Berkow's columns on boxing. Readers will meet some of the greatest names in the sport's history in the pages of this book, including Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Joe Louis, and Mike Tyson. Among the unforgettable stories gathered in this collection are the heated rivalry between Ali and “Smokin' Joe” Frazier, Tyson's infamous “Bite Fight” in 1997, and the will-he-or-won't-he retirement saga of Sugar Ray Leonard. Written in Berkow's gripping prose, the columns included in Counterpunch chronicle the most important moments in boxing over the last four decades.

Author : Alexander Cockburn
Publisher : AK Press
ISBN 13 : 1849353727
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics Of Anti-Semitism written by Alexander Cockburn and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did a term, once used accurately to describe the most virulent evil, become a charge flung at the mildest critic of Israel, particularly concerning its atrocious treatment of Palestinians? Edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, the print and online journal CounterPunch has become a must read for hundreds of thousands a month who no longer believe anything they read in the mainstream press beyond the sports scores. On the subject of Israel and Palestine, the Israeli lobby in the U.S., the current Middle East crisis, and its ramifications at home and abroad, CounterPunch has been unrivaled. Herein, you’ll find CounterPunch’s most compelling reporting and commentary on this topic. Contributors include: former U.S. Representative -Cynthia McKinney, famed British foreign correspon-dent Robert Fisk, former seniorCIA analysts Bill and Kathy Christison, the trenchant and witty philosopher Michael Neumann, seasoned Capitol Hill staffer "George Sutherland," Norman Finkelstein, the leading Israeli dissident Yuri Avneri, Shaheed Alam (who became a target of the fanatical Daniel Pipes), and Israeli journalists Neve Gordon and Yigal Bronner. In addition are: Will Yeoman's path-breaking essay on Israel and divestment, on the hysterical attacks on AmiriBaraka for his poem on 9-11, Anne Pettifer’s Zionism Unbound, Jeffrey St. Clair on the (Israeli) attack on the USS Liberty and the suppression of the investigation, and ’s caustic and lightheartedmemoir of his own experiences of being attacked as an anti-Semite, consequent upon his criticisms of Israel. This first book in the new CounterPunch series, is a timely anthology on the compulsion of silence and complicity in crimes against a betrayed people. Nationally syndicated journalists Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair have co-authored numerous bestsellers, including Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs And The Press, Washington Babylon and Al Gore: A User’s Manual.

Author : Gil Thelen
Publisher : Bookbaby
ISBN 13 : 9781543945416
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Counterpunch: Duking It Out with Parkinson's written by Gil Thelen and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A straight-talking newspaper editor and his journalist wife describe their Parkinson's journey with wit and passion. Their 'Lessons Learned' and practical advice will benefit all patients and their families who wish to live well with their condition. The Thelens' essential and moving message is fight back and never give up. Counterpunch: Duking It Out with Parkinson's inspires, engages and teaches -- a rare combination.

Author : Fred Smeijers
Publisher : Hyphen Press
ISBN 13 : 9780907259428
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Counterpunch, 2nd edition written by Fred Smeijers and published by Hyphen Press. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typography is still dominated by letterforms from the first one hundred years of European printing. Where were the processes and attitudes that lie behind these forms? Fred Smeijers is a type desinger who learn to design and cut punches: the key instruments with which metal type is made. This book is a work of practical history, with much contemporary relevance.

Author : Mark Hatmaker
Publisher : Tracks Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1935937472
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boxer's Bible of Counterpunching written by Mark Hatmaker and published by Tracks Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boxing is more about what you do in resonse to punches than punching prowess itself. This guide is an encyclopedia of counter boxing and includes every effective defense, response and follow-up combination to every attack.--Publisher.

Author : Carol Rossen
Publisher : Dutton Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780525246350
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Counterpunch written by Carol Rossen and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1988 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A woman's journey from the terror of violence through rage to survival"--Jacket subtitle.

Author : Alexander Cockburn
Publisher : AK Press
ISBN 13 : 9781904859376
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book End Times written by Alexander Cockburn and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muckrakers pronounce corporate journalism dead. Read all about it!

Author : Jeffrey St. Clair
Publisher : AK Press
ISBN 13 : 1849351104
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hopeless written by Jeffrey St. Clair and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dissident Left dismantles Obama's failed "progressive" agenda.

Author : Marc Marlow
Publisher : Fresh Ink Group
ISBN 13 : 1947867792
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Operation Counterpunch written by Marc Marlow and published by Fresh Ink Group. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Korea will be the biggest challenge to your presidency, warned the outgoing commander-in-chief; but to imprisoned journalist Geon Jae-sun, surviving each day in the prison camp proves the greatest challenge of his life. Protecting beautiful young prisoner Ji-su has grown increasingly difficult, too, for this slight man, otherwise powerless but for his prowess at deceiving their captors. Navy SEAL Andrew Gunnar Jackson is tasked by the president himself with gathering intel from the hermit kingdom. It’s a dangerous gamble where capture means summary execution—if he’s lucky—or death the slow way in a North Korean prison re-education camp. Information is the least of his concerns, though, as the president agrees he can leverage this mission to satisfy a few goals of his own. How far will each man go to fend off the cruel machinations of a ruthless dictator? And will that be enough for either to survive?