Baddest Man: The Making of Mike Tyson by Kriegel, Mark
Baddest Man: The Making of Mike Tyson by Kriegel, Mark

Baddest Man: The Making of Mike Tyson

From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author whose coverage of Mike Tyson and his inner circle...
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Author: Mark Kriegel
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Baddest Man: The Making of Mike Tyson by Kriegel, Mark

Baddest Man: The Making of Mike Tyson

$82.83
Baddest Man: The Making of Mike Tyson by Kriegel, Mark

Baddest Man: The Making of Mike Tyson

$82.83
Author: Mark Kriegel
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author whose coverage of Mike Tyson and his inner circle dates back to the 1980s, a magnificent noir epic about fame, race, greed, criminality, trauma, and the creation of the most feared and mesmerizing fighter in boxing history.

On an evening that defined the "greed is good" 1980s, Donald Trump hosted a raft of celebrities and high rollers in a carnival town on the Jersey Shore to bask in the glow created by a twenty-one-year-old heavyweight champion. Mike Tyson knocked out Michael Spinks that night and in ninety-one frenzied seconds earned more than the annual payrolls of the Los Angeles Lakers' and Boston Celtics' players combined.

It had been just eight years since Tyson, a feral child from a dystopian Brooklyn neighborhood, was delivered to boxing's forgotten wizard, Cus D'Amato, who was living a self-imposed exile in upstate New York. Together, Cus and the Kid were an irresistible story of mutual redemption--darlings to the novelists, screenwriters, and newspapermen long charmed by D'Amato, and perfect for the nascent industry of cable television. Way before anyone heard of Tony Soprano, Mike Tyson was HBO's leading man.

It was the greatest sales job in the sport's history, and the most lucrative. But the business of Tyson concealed truths that were darker and more nuanced than the script would allow.

The intervening decades have seen Tyson villainized, lionized, and fetishized--but never, until now, fully humanized. Mark Kriegel, an acclaimed biographer regarded as "the finest boxing writer in America," was a young cityside reporter at the New York Daily News when he was first swept up in the Tyson media hurricane, but here he measures his subject not by whom he knocked out but by what he survived. Though Tyson was billed as a modern-day Jack Dempsey, in truth he was closer to Sonny Liston: Tyson was Black, feared, and born to die young. What made Liston a pariah, though, would make Tyson--in a way his own handlers could never understand--a touchstone for a generation raised on a soundtrack of hip hop and gunfire.

What Peter Guralnick did for Elvis in Last Train to Memphis and James Kaplan for Sinatra in Frank, Kriegel does for Tyson. It's not just the dizzying ascent that he captures but also Tyson's place in the American psyche.

Author: Mark Kriegel
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 06/03/2025
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.13w x 0.91d
ISBN: 9780735223400

About the Author
Mark Kriegel, a former sports columnist for the New York Post and the New York Daily News, is a boxing analyst and essayist for ESPN. He is the author of Namath: A Biography, Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich and The Good Son: The Life of Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini. He lives in Santa Monica, California, with his wife, the screenwriter Jenny Lumet.
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