The Battle of the Century: Dempsey, Carpentier, and the Birth of Modern Promotion

by James M. Waltzer and Jim Waltzer

This exciting account of the 1921 heavyweight boxing title fight between champion Jack Dempsey and Frenchman Georges Carpentier relates how it originated and how it became a template for modern sports promotion.

Immortalized as the battle of the century by Ring Lardner, the Dempsey-Carpentier heavyweight title bout marked America's first experience with the intersection of show business, high society, politics, and the underworld...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313382441
• ISBN13: 9780313382444
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 7 to 17 years