Boxing (24-Jun-1895 — 31-May-1983)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Roger Kahn. A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20s. Harcourt Trade. 2000. 496pp.

Randy Roberts. Jack Dempsey: The Manassa Mauler. University of Illinois Press. 2003. 344pp.

AUTHORITIES

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Wikipedia [link]

5. Encyclopedia of American Biography (p.282)

6. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.175)

7. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.406)

8. Webster's American Biographies (p.271)

9. Celebrity Register 3rd Issue (p.138)

10. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.184)

11. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.143)

12. American Lives: Sports (vol.1, pp.225-27)

13. ESPN Sports Almanac 2004 (p.518)

14. St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (vol.1, p.685)

15. Sports Illustrated 2005 Almanac (p.862)

16. Legends in Their Own Time (p.65)

17. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.261)

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