Articles from the fifties recreate the atmosphere of past fights and trace the rise of great fighters like Rocky Marciano

The Sweet Science

Sports & Outdoors

Liebling, A.J.

Individual Sports

Penguin??Books

Take a ringside seat next to A. J. Liebling at some of the greatest fights in history. Here is Joe Louis's devastating final match; Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback; and Rocky Marciano's rise to heavyweight glory. The heated ringside atmosphere, the artistry of the great boxers and the blows and parries of the classic fights are all vividly evoked in a volume described by Sports Illustrated as 'the best American sports book of all time'.\n'A rollicking god among boxing writers ... before Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson were out of diapers, Liebling was taking his readers on excursions through the hidden and often hilarious levels of this bruised subculture ... the Master' Los Angeles Times\n'Nobody wrote about boxing with more grace and enthusiasm' The New York Times

Sweet Science

Penguin Classics

Between Meals An Appetite for Paris /anglais

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Penguin Uk

THE PRESS-REV & UPDATED

Ballantine Books

The restaurants of the Latin Quarter and the city rooms of midtown Manhattan; the beachhead of Normandy and the boxing gyms of Times Square; the trackside haunts of bookmakers and the shadowy redoubts of Southern politicians--these are the places that A.J. Liebling shows to us in his unforgettable New Yorker articles, brought together here so that a new generation of readers might discover Liebling as if for the first time. Born a hundred years ago, Abbott Joseph "Joe" Liebling was the first of the great New Yorker writers, a colorful and tireless figure who helped set the magazine's urbane style. Today, he is best known as a celebrant of the "sweet science" of boxing or as a "feeder" who ravishes the reader with his descriptions of food and wine. But as David Remnick, a Liebling devotee, suggests in his fond and insightful introduction, Liebling was a writer bounded only by his intelligence, taste, and ardor for life. Like his nemesis William Randolph Hearst, he changed the rules of modern journalism, banishing the distinctions between reporting and storytelling, between news and art. Whatever his role, Liebling is a most companionable figure, and to read the pieces in this grand and generous book is to be swept along on a thrilling adventure in a world of confidence men, rogues, press barons and political cronies, with an inimitable writer as one's guide.

Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer

Essays & Correspondence

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

A prolific reporter for The New Yorker assesses newspaper articles of the last decades to show that lack of competition, public regulation, and professional criticism have endangered the objectivity of the press

THE PRESS

Pantheon

A.J. Liebling's classic New Yorker pieces on the "sweet science of bruising" bring vividly to life the boxing world as it once was. It depicts the great events of boxing's American heyday: Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's rise to prominence, Joe Louis's unfortunate decline. Liebling never fails to find the human story behind the fight, and he evokes the atmosphere in the arena as distinctly as he does the goings-on in the ring--a combination that prompted Sports Illustrated to name The Sweet Science the best American sports book of all time.

VIKING

A collection of fifteen essays written between 1952 and 1963 deal with the world of boxing, including the Patterson-Johansson championship fight of 1959 and the rise of a young fighter named Muhammad Ali

NEUTRAL CORNER: BOXING ESSAYS (Fireside Sport Classic)

Fireside

The author shares his memories of Paris in 1926 and 1927 when he was a student there and describes French cuisine, customs, and urban life

Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris (Modern Library)

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Modern Library

Originally published in 1944, The Road Back to Paris comprises dispatches from France, England, and North Africa that A. J. Liebling filed with The New Yorker during the Second World War. The magazine sent Liebling to Paris in 1939, hoping that he could replicate in wartime France his brilliant reporting of New York life. Liebling succeeded triumphantly, concentrating on writing the individual soldier's story to illuminate the larger picture of the European theater of the war and the fight for what Liebling felt was the first priority of business: the liberation of his beloved France. The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hardbound editions of important works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torch-bearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inaugurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices. For a complete list of titles, see the inside of the jacket. Despite his ill health and bad eyesight, Liebling went on patrol, interviewed soldiers, fled Paris and returned after D-Day, was shot at in North Africa and bombed in the blitz in London. Into this chaos, as his biographer Raymond Sokolov comments, "he brought himself, a fiercely committed Francophile with a novelist's skill for crystallizing his day-to-day experiences into a profound chronicle of a 'world knocked down.' "

The Road Back to Paris (Modern Library)

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The Sweet Science

Sweet Science

Between Meals An Appetite for Paris /anglais

THE PRESS-REV & UPDATED

Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer

THE PRESS

The Sweet Science

NEUTRAL CORNER: BOXING ESSAYS (Fireside Sport Classic)

Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris (Modern Library)

The Road Back to Paris (Modern Library)