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Recommended reading: Chronicling the life of American Legend Sugar Ray Robinson

"This is an ambitious portrait of an American legend," Pete Hamill writes in his review of Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson. "Ray Robinson was not just a prizefighter. He was an extraordinary fighter. Someone once said: ‘There was Ray Robinson. And then there were the top 10.’ He was certainly the greatest prizefighter I ever saw. But Wil Haygood has written more than a simple chronicle of a sports career. He wants to place Robinson as a central figure in the rise of urban African-Americans in the 20th century. At the peak of his success, in the 1940s and ’50s, Robinson epitomized the tough grace and style and confidence of an entire generation."
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