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In A Flame of Pure Fire, renowned sports writer Roger Kahn not only chronicles the thrilling, brutal bouts of the Manassa Mauler, but also illustrates how the tumultuous s shaped Dempsey, and how the champ in turn, left an indelible mark on sports and American history/5(74). A Flame of Pure Fire Jack Dempsey and the Roaring 20s - Roger Kahn. MP3-CD A Flame Of Pure Fire, Jack Dempsey and the roaring 20s. A Flame of Pure Fire is the extraordinary story of a man and a country growing to maturity in a blaze of strength and exuberance that nearly burned them to ash. Hobo, roughneck, fighter, lover, millionaire, movie star, and, finally, a gentleman of rare generosity and sincerity, Dempsey embodied an America grappling with the confusing demands of preeminence/5().

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Jack Dempsey was perfectly suited to the time in which he fought, the time when the United States first felt the throb of its own overwhelming power. For eight years and two months after World War I, Dempsey, with his fierce good looks and matchless dedication to the kill, was heavyweight champion of the world. A friend of Dempsey's and an insightful observer of the ways in which sport can measure a society's evolution, Kahn reaches a new and exciting stage in his acclaimed career with this book. In the story of a man John Lardner called "a flame of pure fire, at last a hero," Roger Kahn finds the heart of America. A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20s Roger Kahn, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $28 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author.