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Sweet Thunder – The life and times of Sugar Ray Robinson: Born Walker Smith Jr., in 1921, Robinson had an early childhood marked by the seething racial tensions and explosive race riots that infected the Midwest throughout the twenties and thirties. After his mother moved him and his sisters to the relative safety of Harlem, he came of age in the vibrant post-Renaissance years. It was there that-encouraged to box by his mother, who wanted him off the streets he soon became a rising star, cutting an electrifying, glamorous figure, riding around town in his famous pink Cadillac. Robinson would emerge as a powerful, often controversial black symbol in a rapidly changing America.
Livro usado, em excelente estado de conservação. Capa dura. Em inglês. Local: Recepção
