Unless otherwise noted, all photographs are from the author’s collection.

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Silver, Mike.

The arc of boxing : the rise and decline of the sweet science / Mike Silver ; with a foreword by Budd Schulberg.

p.     cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-7864-3849-5

1. Boxing—Social aspects—History.

2. Boxing—History.

I. Title.

GV1136.8.S56       2008
 796.83—dc22     2008036087

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©2008 Mike Silver. All rights reserved

No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Cover photograph: Sugar Ray Robinson (left) and Tommy Bell in the 1946 welterweight title fight (International Hall of Champions)

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