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Cornell University graduate Gerald Early is an essayist and professor at Washington University. Early was the director of African and Afro-American studies at Washington University and the director of the American Culture Studies Program. He was also named the Merle Kling Professor of Modern vis mere Letters in Arts and Sciences. His essays have been included in Harpers, The New Republic, and Hungry Mind Review. His books include One Nation Under a Groove: Motown and American Culture, Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity and Ambivalence of Assimilation, and Body Language: Writers on Sport. Early received the National Book Critics Circle Award for his book The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Literature, Prizefighting, and Modern American Culture. (Bowker Author Biography) Gerald Early is the author of "The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, & Modern American Culture" & the editor of "The Muhammad Ali Reader". He is Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters at Washington University in St. Louis. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre

Omfatter også følgende navne: Gerald L. Early, Gerald Lyn Early

Værker af Gerald Early

The Muhammad Ali Reader (1998) 60 eksemplarer
Best African American Essays: 2009 (2009) — Redaktør — 41 eksemplarer
Best African American Fiction 2010 (2009) — Editor (series) — 30 eksemplarer
The Sammy Davis, Jr. Reader (2001) — Redaktør — 15 eksemplarer
Best African American Essays 2010 (2009) 15 eksemplarer
I'm a Little Special (1999) — Redaktør — 15 eksemplarer

Associated Works

Baseball: An Illustrated History (1994) — Bidragyder — 813 eksemplarer
The Best American Essays of the Century (2000) — Bidragyder — 774 eksemplarer
Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow (2007) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver270 eksemplarer
The Best American Essays 1991 (1991) — Bidragyder — 142 eksemplarer
The Best American Essays 1996 (1996) — Bidragyder — 132 eksemplarer
The Best American Essays 1993 (1993) — Bidragyder — 120 eksemplarer
Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America (1995) — Bidragyder — 91 eksemplarer
Moral Issues and Christian Responses (1997) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver83 eksemplarer
The Best American Essays 1986 (1986) — Bidragyder — 70 eksemplarer
Antaeus No. 61, Autumn 1988 - Journals, Notebooks & Diaries (1988) — Bidragyder — 34 eksemplarer
Antaeus No. 75/76, Autumn 1994 - The Final Issue (1994) — Bidragyder — 32 eksemplarer
Race: An Anthology in the First Person (1997) — Bidragyder — 28 eksemplarer
These Hands I Know: African-American Writers on Family (2002) — Bidragyder — 8 eksemplarer

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Read this for a class. I definitely appreciated getting read so many different perspectives on Ali. I especially liked reading some of the interviews he did, particularly one he did with playboy magazine
 
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AKBouterse | 1 anden anmeldelse | Oct 14, 2021 |
No boxer has ever captured the public spotlight like Ali! He was funny, and all he had to do to make money was get in the Ring and try to eke out a win over people who, given a chance, could beat you to death! Some of them, Liston or Foreman, for example, could do it with one hand tied behind their back! He was the classic example of "grace under pressure."
He was an athlete in the boxing business who confronted the "fighters" and embarrassed them! This is a good anthology of writing about him.… (mere)
 
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DinadansFriend | 1 anden anmeldelse | Oct 12, 2013 |
The writing in this book is absolutely exquisite. As an anthology, it's far-ranging in terms of genre and style, and while I didn't enjoy (or understand) some of the stories, even the ones I disliked were incredibly well-written. Some of the stories are uncomfortably supernatural or uncomfortably frank, they're all some of the finest prose I've read in a very long time, and I'll be keeping an eye out for other works by many of these authors. It's a serious, deep read, but well worth the time it takes.… (mere)
 
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