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Joe Louis published his first autobiography in book form published in 1947,
MY LIFE STORY(with the editorial aid of Chester L.Washington and Haskell Cohen).
Joe Louis published a second autobiography of his life that appeared in 7 parts in the NEW YORK TIMES in 1948.

Has anyone here ever read his NYT auiobiography series?
Quotes from the NYT piece have been published in later books written about Joe Louis.
It appears somewhat different in content then his book.

LIFE STORY OF JOE LOUIS (NEW YORK TIMES)

Part one-HIS EARLY YEARS/-November-5-1948
Part two -HIS FIRST FIGHTS/-November-6-1948
Part three-BIG MONEY/-November-8-1948
Part four-HE WINS THE TITLE/-November-9-1948
Part five-SEES ROOSEVELT/-November-10-1948
Part six-HE MEETS JIM CROW IN ARMY/-November-11-1948
Part seven-HIS TRAVELS/-November-12-1948

BTW I have not read the series mentioned,just quotes from it other biographys of Joe Louis.

I knew about that,I just dont feel like paying out seventeen dollars in 2010 to the New York Times to be able to view articles written and published
almost 62 years ago.

You can read his second autobiography without paying the NY Times again.
check this link,
JOE LOUIS-MY STORY
(as told to Meyer Berger and Barney Nagler)
Part One

LIFE MAGAZINE
November.8.1948
(check out the rare photographs that were not published in the NYT reprints)
scroll down from page 126.

http://books.google.com/books?id=d0oEAA ... g=PA126&dq

MY STORY by Joe Louis
Part Two
LIFE MAGAZINE-November-15-1948

http://books.google.com/books?id=YkoEAA ... g=PA126&dq

Thanks for posting!

I really enjoyed reading this article.

Brutu wrote:You can read his second autobiography without paying the NY Times again.
check this link,
JOE LOUIS-MY STORY
(as told to Meyer Berger and Barney Nagler)
Part One

LIFE MAGAZINE
November.8.1948
(check out the rare photographs that were not published in the NYT reprints)
scroll down from page 126.

http://books.google.com/books?id=d0oEAA ... g=PA126&dq

Save yourself from enriching 20 dollars to the New York Times
and read it it on-line(this time with lots of photographs).

Brutu wrote:MY STORY by Joe Louis
Part Two
LIFE MAGAZINE-November-15-1948

http://books.google.com/books?id=YkoEAA ... g=PA126&dq

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Just noticed that Joe Louis didnt curse once(in print anyway)in his two earlier published autobiographies from 1947 and 1948.

Caractacus wrote:Just noticed that Joe Louis didnt curse once(in print anyway)in his two earlier published autobiographies from 1947 and 1948.

Well that's just ridiculous. I am led to question the fact that he actually wrote his own autobiographies, I mean, who could possibly lead a curse-free life. Joe conned us all, got someone with a higher intellect than himself to write those books.

witherspoon wrote:

Caractacus wrote:Just noticed that Joe Louis didnt curse once(in print anyway)in his two earlier published autobiographies from 1947 and 1948.

Well that's just ridiculous. I am led to question the fact that he actually wrote his own autobiographies...

Pretty fair guess that he didn't, since he was illiterate and didn't even know how to write.

Man,do you think that Larry Holmes actually even wrote his autobiography?
He(Holmes) at one time even said publicly that he was misquoted in his own autobiography.
when he called Butterbean "Just a Big Fat Slob that was impersonating a boxer".

Oh man. It's so sad that such a high percentage of successful boxers are illiterate dumbasses. I'm sure guys like James J Jefferies, Rocky Marciano, Gerry Cooney and Joe Messi would be able to string enough sentences together to write a decent auto-bio. Klitschko bro's are freakin doctors!!
The rest of the HW's need to step out of the DARK and step up