Jack Doyle

The Gorgeous Gael

Michael Taub (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

370 Seiten

2007
The Lilliput Press Ltd (Verlag)
9781843511236 (ISBN)

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Lilliput Press is delighted to announce the reprint of Jack Doyle: The Gorgeous Gael by Michael Taub in honour of the centenary of his birth. Jack Doyle was a 6ft 5in Irishman with a giant appetite for life. In 1933 he drew 90,000 to London’s White City to see him fight and was making £600 (GBP) a week on stage as a singer. He was 19. By the age of 30 he had earned and squandered a £250,000 fortune (worth millions today). His motto was, ‘A generous man never went to hell,’ and he lived his life like a hellraiser. In his heyday as a heavyweight boxer, singer and playboy, his celebrity rivalled the Prince of Wales, and he and his wife – the beautiful Mexican film star and singer Movita, who later married Marlon Brando – were as popular in the thirties and forties as Olivier and Leigh or Burton and Taylor. This remarkable biography rescues a glittering period of social and boxing history from obscurity and restores Jack and Movita to their rightful place in the showbiz and sporting pantheon. Jack’s ring presence and personality reached back to the days of the Regency Buck and his friendships with the Royal Family, his fist-fight with Clark Gable, his life as a film star and gigolo, his throwing of a fight by knocking himself out, and his extraordinary post-war career as an all-in wrestler, are the stuff of legend confirmed here by seven years’ exhaustive research, during which Taub tracked down and interviewed the leading player’s in Jack’s life. The book was released in autumn 2007 in conjunction with the screening of the RTE documentary “Jack Doyle: A Legend Lost”, for which Michael Taub acted as consultant and in which he appears throughout.

MICHAEL TAUB began his career at 17 as a trainee reporter on Boxing News. He became press officer at Wembley Stadium, deputy sports editor of the Sunday Express and night sports editor of the Daily Mirror. He is married with three grown-up children and lives in Berkshire. He is author of Danoli: The People's Champion.

Vorwort	Desmond Lynam
Verlagsort	Dublin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 210 mm
Gewicht	500 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
ISBN-13	9781843511236 / 9781843511236
Zustand	Neuware