The King Of White Collar Boxing

Author : David Lawrence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983478331
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The King of White Collar Boxing written by David Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. David Lawrence's memoir, THE KING OF WHITE COLLAR BOXING, is a charged and urgent piece of writing filled with electric metaphors-picture Hearns and Hagler rushing to the middle of the ring and slugging it out incessantly-that kept me reading compulsively. The book moves at breakneck speed through the worlds of shady business and privilege, boxing and rapping, a year or so in prison and fears of brain damage as he desperately tries to make his mark following his own code of ethics. All along we witness the inside of a fantastically manic and narcissistic brain pinballing between deep seeded inadequacy and visions of grandeur and honor as he propels himself down the social/economic ladder on a redemptive mission to find the place where things make the most sense and he feels most at home: in the ring with the basic mantra of 'kill or be killed' and subsequently putting words to pages until I, a completely satisfied reader, end up rooting for him.

Author : John E. Oden
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1578262070
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Collar Boxing written by John E. Oden and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2005-10-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fists, fury and the sweet science of white collar boxing. From elite boarding schools to executive boardrooms, white collar boxing has never been more popular. With its roots in the English aristocracy, the "Sweet Science" is gaining fans among the alpha males (and females) of industry, banking, finance, and law. Now white collar boxer John Oden traces the history of the sport from organized bouts at English boarding schools in the 19th Century to today's brawls between stockbrokers and bankers. Along the way he details his own transformation from a milquetoast investment banker to "The Pecos Kid," one of the most fearsome white collar boxers in New York. Boxing legends Gerry Cooney and trainer Emanuel Steward, among others, have enthusiastically embraced white collar boxing. At the intersection of professional and amateur boxing, it has inspired men and women from many different walks of life to participate in the ancient sport. Each month, bouts are scheduled in the glistening hubs of finance from London to New York—black-tie charity events where some of the world's most powerful businesspeople battle each other into submission. White Collar Boxing is a compelling look at one man's odyssey through this growing phenomenon.

Author : David Lawrence
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666703109
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Invading God's Possible Universe written by David Lawrence and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invading God’s Universe is about David Lawrence’s attempt to adjust to the possibility of God. He seeks his own soul but isn’t even sure that he has a soul. He sees himself as a book written by heaven or maybe not. He is confused and searching. He boldly says that “what God likes about me is that I reject him.” God does not need our belief. He is himself. He is God. David wrestles with God and feels that God likes it that way. He doesn’t want to bother God. He doesn’t want to annoy him by his “selfishness / And demanding prayers.” He feels that God “dislikes religion. / And settles for the spirit.” God is not formulaic. He is love. Love is not codification. It is free spirit. David feels God's presence when he is alone. He does not like gatherings for prayer because he wants to have his own direct connection with God. He does not read the Bible. He is the Bible. He is God’s text. He is written. God is or isn't the pen. He is a Doubting Thomas but he doesn't doubt that he feels a cosmic presence within him.

Author : Abdul R. JanMohamed
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100008406X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconsidering Social Identification written by Abdul R. JanMohamed and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates how four socially constructed identities (race, gender, class and caste) can be rethought as matrices designed to accumulate various kinds of socio-economic values and to translate and transfer these values from one group to another. Essays in the anthology also attempt to compare the mechanisms deployed by various groups to consolidate identificatory investments. Drawn mainly for the fields of literary and cultural studies, the essays are grouped in four categories. Essays collected under ‘Theoretical Approaches’ scrutinize the relative value of various approaches; those collected under ‘Considerations of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation’ examine the interaction between these three categories in formation of identities; those grouped under ‘Comparative Analysis of African-American and Dalit Writing’ provide comparative analyses of the literary productions of these two oppressed groups; and, finally, those under ‘The Persistence of Racialized Perceptions’ focus on the role of ideologically inflected perception of European colonizers and the persistence of such perception in the categorization and treatment of colonial migrants to the metropolis.

Author : Lucia Trimbur
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069115029X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Come Out Swinging written by Lucia Trimbur and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nuanced insider's account of everyday life in the last remaining institution of New York's golden age of boxing Gleason's Gym is the last remaining institution of New York's Golden Age of boxing. Jake LaMotta, Muhammad Ali, Hector Camacho, Mike Tyson—the alumni of Gleason's are a roster of boxing greats. Founded in the Bronx in 1937, Gleason's moved in the mid-1980s to what has since become one of New York's wealthiest residential areas—Brooklyn's DUMBO. Gleason's has also transformed, opening its doors to new members, particularly women and white-collar men. Come Out Swinging is Lucia Trimbur's nuanced insider's account of a place that was once the domain of poor and working-class men of color but is now shared by rich and poor, male and female, black and white, and young and old. Come Out Swinging chronicles the everyday world of the gym. Its diverse members train, fight, talk, and socialize together. We meet amateurs for whom boxing is a full-time, unpaid job. We get to know the trainers who act as their father figures and mentors. We are introduced to women who empower themselves physically and mentally. And we encounter the male urban professionals who pay handsomely to learn to box, and to access a form of masculinity missing from their office-bound lives. Ultimately, Come Out Swinging reveals how Gleason's meets the needs of a variety of people who, despite their differences, are connected through discipline and sport.

Author : John E. Oden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781578262076
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Collar Boxing written by John E. Oden and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of white collar boxing from its origins in nineteenth-century English boarding schools to today's competitions between businesspeople, describing the author's own transformation from an investment banker to one of New York's top contending boxers. 10,000 first printing.

Author : Ben Dirs
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471129055
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hate Game written by Ben Dirs and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Eubank, with his jodhpurs and gold-topped cane, who lisped in his posh accent about his distaste for the business of 'pugilism', could not have appeared more different from Nigel Benn, 'The Dark Destroyer', the Essex boy who had battled with his demons to reach the top of the boxing world. Their boxing style was just as contrasting, and it was inevitable that they would have to settle their differences in the ring. Their first bout for the WBO world middleweight title, in Birmingham in November 1990, was a brutal affair, widely held to be one of the all-time great contests. Eubank emerged victorious over Benn, the people's champion, and immediately fans called for a rematch. But, for three years, the two men circled each other before coming together again in front of over 40,000 fans at Old Trafford and a global TV audience estimated at 500 million. Author Ben Dirs has interviewed the key protagonists to tell a story that gripped the nation and that still resonates today, 20 years on. It is a tale that reveals the best and the worst of boxing, while rvealing the truth that lay behind the public facade.

Author : Thomas Hauser
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1557288593
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greatest Sport of All written by Thomas Hauser and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kathleen F. Brickey
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1543831060
Total Pages : 1056 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corporate and White Collar Crime written by Kathleen F. Brickey and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its focus on substantive law, Corporate and White Collar Crime: Cases and Materials provides systematic and comprehensive consideration of major white-collar crime statutes in the federal criminal code, securities laws, and environmental statutes. New to the 7th Edition: Shift in corporate prosecution policy and individual accountability from Obama-era Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to Trump-era Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Obstruction of Justice as set out in the Mueller Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election High profile Supreme Court decision in the Bridgegate case, Kelly v. United States, 590 U.S. ___ (2020) on the limits of Honest Services Fraud prosecution Additional commentary on the apparent corporate crime wave, use of deferred prosecution and non-prosecution agreements, and white collar crime victims Professors and students will benefit from: Up-to-date examples of high-profile white collar crime investigations and legal opinions including the Supreme Court decision involving the Governor of Virginia and the Bridgegate case, as well as the Mueller investigation report Energetic and clear written explanations of white collar criminal offenses and concise case excerpts Attention to the Responsible Corporate Officer doctrine and individual responsibility for corporate crime more generally Case selection that clearly illustrates the elements of proof for the main federal white collar criminal offenses Teaching materials include: Case summaries Answers to the questions posed in the casebook Available in pdf form only

Author : Travis D. Satterlund
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781536138740
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fighting for a Gender[ed] Identity written by Travis D. Satterlund and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fighting for a Gender[ed] Identity is an ethnographic exploration into the increasingly popular world of white collar boxing. Travis Satterlund, a sociologist, spent over a year and a half researching a boxing gym and its participants, toiling alongside gym members, learning the boxing trade, sweating and enjoying the doses of macho from banging heads with fellow pugilists. He learned how to throw a variety of punch combinations; how to defend and parry punches; how to take a punch; he learned of the hard work, commitment, and dedication necessary to become even an average boxer; and, most importantly, he learned about the culture of KO Gym and its members. While expecting to find a gym filled with young, working-class, non-white menlike he saw on television and in movieshe was surprised when he initially arrived at KO Gym. Though there were indeed diverse, young men at the gym who trained seriously for competitions, the place was also filled with white menboth young and middle-agedwho were also training. Moreover, there were a couple of women training, and the two trainers were white, one of whom was a woman. This countered his expectations and piqued his interest. Satterlund wanted to learn about these mostly white boxers that he would later learn were almost entirely middle to upper middle-class. What brought them to the gym? What did they get out of it? Sociologically, what was happening? This book reveals that gym members used the cultural meanings associated with boxing as resources to construct boxing as an activity from which they could derive gendered identity rewards. As such, Satterlund shows how authenticity of the gym was socially constructed to meet these identity rewards and also to resolve these dilemmas. Moreover, while most of the men at the gym had secure middle-class jobs, these jobs were not the primary basis for their feelings of self-worth, especially in relation to their identity as men. In essence, then, the boxing gym offered a means for the men to compensate for their inability to signify power, control, and toughness in their professional lives. Women also sought identity rewards from boxing and had reasons to want to signify masculine qualities. For them, too, boxing was a way to signify agency and strength. Yet, they also faced dilemmas in seeking to distance themselves from other feminine women without being viewed as too masculine. At the same time, however, social class complicated matters considerably, creating other issues for both the men and the women. Satterlund thus uses the context of KO Gym and its membership to analyze the many nuances of these gender identity-related issues, focusing not only on how social class both disrupts and facilitates how a gendered space is created, but how gender inequalities are created, maintained and reproduced in white collar boxing.