{"product_id":"baddest-man-the-making-of-mike-tyson","title":"Baddest Man: The Making Of Mike Tyson","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling\nauthor whose coverage of Mike Tyson and his inner circle dates back to the\n1980s, a magnificent noir epic about fame, race, greed, criminality,\ntrauma, and the creation of the most feared and mesmerizing fighter in boxing\nhistory.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nOn an evening that defined the Greed is Good 1980s, Donald Trump hosted a raft\nof celebrities and high rollers in a carnival town on the Jersey Shore to bask\nin the glow created by a 21-year-old heavyweight champion. Mike Tyson knocked\nout Michael Spinks that night, and in 91 frenzied seconds earned more than the\nannual payrolls of the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics combined.  \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIt had been just eight years since Tyson, a feral child from a dystopian\nBrooklyn neighborhood was delivered to boxing’s forgotten wizard, Cus D’Amato,\nliving a self-imposed exile in upstate New York. Together, Cus and the Kid were\nan irresistible story of mutual redemption―darlings to the novelists,\nscreenwriters and newspapermen long charmed by D’Amato, and perfect for the\nnascent industry of cable television. Long before anyone heard of Tony Soprano,\nMike Tyson was HBO’s leading man.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIt was the greatest sales job in the sport’s history, and the most lucrative.\nBut the business of Tyson concealed truths that were darker and more nuanced\nthan the script would allow.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe intervening decades have seen Tyson villainized, lionized, and\nfetishized―but never, until now, fully humanized. Mark Kriegel, an acclaimed\nbiographer regarded as “the finest boxing writer in America,” was a young\ncityside reporter at the New York \u003ci\u003eDaily News\u003c\/i\u003e when first swept\nup in the Tyson media hurricane, but here measures his subject not by whom he\nknocked out, but by what he survived. Though Tyson was billed as a modern-day\nJack Dempsey, the truth was closer to Sonny Liston. Tyson was Black, feared,\nand born to die young. What made Liston a pariah, though, would make Tyson―in a\nway his own handlers could never understand―a touchstone for a generation\nraised on a soundtrack of hip hop and gunfire.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWhat Peter Guralnick did for Elvis in \u003ci\u003eTrain to Memphis\u003c\/i\u003e and\nJames Kaplan for Sinatra in \u003ci\u003eFrank\u003c\/i\u003e, Kriegel does for Tyson. It’s not\njust the mesmerizing ascent that he captures, but Tyson’s place in the American\npsyche.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Kriegel\u003c\/b\u003e, a former sports columnist for the \u003ci\u003eNew\nYork Post \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eDaily News\u003c\/i\u003e, is a boxing analyst and\nessayist for ESPN. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eNamath: A Biography, Pistol: The\nLife of Pete Maravich \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Good Son: The Life of Ray “Boom\nBoom” Mancini. \u003c\/i\u003eHe lives in Santa Monica, California, with his wife,\nthe screenwriter Jenny Lumet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TIMES DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44684652249295,"sku":"9780735223400","price":38.1,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_f66c2693-3c96-4ba6-ad15-fa26944f6b59.jpg?v=1773629486","url":"https:\/\/popular.baby\/products\/baddest-man-the-making-of-mike-tyson","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}