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Re: Whatever became of the book-'THE BOILERMAKER'-(?)
Posted: 08 May 2014, 14:01
by HomicideHenry
Not quite an autobiography, as it is a newspaper by newspaper account of his career, Adam Pollack's IN THE RING WITH JIM JEFFRIES, the 4th serial of the collection, is an excellent source of information on Jeffries abilities--- blow by blow--- and gives you an in depth perspective of the era, and how it viewed him. Presently Mr. Pollack is writing volume II of his Jack Johnson series, the first volume is entitled 'IN THE RING WITH JACK JOHNSON, ON THE RISE' which covers his early beginnings to becoming a contender. I am hoping that Mr. Pollack continues on in the series, at least until the reign of Joe Louis--- I am very hopeful for a Jess Willard book, as I do not believe anyone has ever did one on the subject of the last "Great White Hope".
Re: Whatever became of the book-'THE BOILERMAKER'-(?)
Posted: 08 May 2014, 14:23
by HomicideHenry
SugahRay Robitussen wrote:I was just wondering why the autobiography of Jim Jeffries wasn't published back in 1981,
since there was already a number of books about Jack Johnson on the market at that time.
Just reading about and only(a past it) Jim Jeffries as related to the fight with Johnson in 1910 I would imagine would
become rather tiresome for the average person/boxing fan who was about 25 in 1980.
That was about 15 years at least before the inter-net and info about Jim J. jeffries
overall career would have been difficult to find.
I was reading the English translation of Jack Johnson's MY LIFE AND BATTLES,
and in it the translator and editor Christopher River's said he had to get
a photo-copy of Jim Jeffries 1910 published autobiography
from the rare books and manuscripts dept at University of Notre Dame.
Just seems to me there would have been interest in a republication of
Jim Jeffries autobiography back in 1981.
Why would there be, when most the American public was duped into believing Jeffries was nothing more than a white hope, and the slowest and worst of them all--- because of the film starring James Earl Jones, which was a famed Broadway play, and of course historians and fighters writing Jeffries off because he lost to Johnson. The resurgance, and interest in Jeffries, wouldn't be until this passed decade where his career has been given a new perspective.