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Nick Tosches, The Devil and Sonny Liston (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2000)

July 16, 2009
By Kevin R. Kosar
Nick Tosches, The Devil and Sonny Liston (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2000)

Tosches Makes Hemingway Looked Genial and Demure, by Kevin R. Kosar, November 23, 2008 An interesting tale of the triumphant and tragic life of the boxer, Sonny Liston. It details the extensive mob involvement with boxing. It was a corrupt, rigged system, and poor, uneducated guys like Sonny Liston were used by it. Tosches...
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