“Save us, Joe Louis!”

Book Review of "Joe Louis: Hard Times"

Book review by Chris Cozzone

“Save me, Joe Louis! Save me, Joe Louis!”

As urban legend has it, those were the last words of a black death row prisoner, back in the ‘30s, as he breathed in fatal fumes in the gas chamber.

Not to make light of a dying man’s words (they weren’t true, anyway), the quote came to mind when I saw there was yet another book on the market on the long-running heavyweight champion . . . Click here for more

February 8th, 2011

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