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Baddest Man: The Making of Mike Tyson

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內容簡介 拳王泰森崛起傳奇揭示拳壇最強者誕生之路來自廣受好評的《紐約時報》暢銷書作者，他對麥克·泰森及其內圈的報導可追溯至1980年代，這是一部關於名聲、種族、貪婪、犯罪、創傷，以及拳擊史上最令人畏懼且迷人的拳手誕生的宏大黑色史詩。在定義了1980年代「貪婪即美德」的那個夜晚，唐納德·川普在澤西海岸的一個狂歡小鎮，邀請了眾多名流與富豪，沉浸在這位21歲重量級冠軍所創造的光環之中。當晚，麥克·泰森擊倒了邁克爾·斯賓克斯，僅用九十一秒的狂熱時間，就賺得比洛杉磯湖人隊與波士頓塞爾提克隊球員全年薪水加總還多。距離此刻，不過八年。泰森，那個來自布魯克林反烏托邦街區的野性孩子，被送到了拳擊界被遺忘的大師庫斯·達馬托手中。達馬托當時自我放逐在紐約上州，兩人共同演繹了一段不可抗拒的相互救贖故事——他們是小說家、編劇與新聞記者眼中的寵兒，長久以來都被達馬托迷住，也極適合剛興起的有線電視產業。在任何人聽過東尼·索普拉諾之前，麥克·泰森已經是HBO的頭牌。這是體育史上最偉大的銷售手法，也是最賺錢的生意。但泰森的事業背後隱藏的真相，比劇本允許的更黑暗、更複雜。這幾十年來，泰森被妖魔化、被神化，也被迷戀，但直到現在，他從未被完全人性化。馬克·克里格爾（Mark Kriegel），一位被譽為「美國最優秀的拳擊作家」的傳記作家，年輕時在《紐約每日新聞》擔任城市記者，第一次被泰森媒體風暴席捲，而在本書中，他衡量泰森不以擊倒誰為準，而是以他活過了什麼為尺度。雖然泰森被標榜為現代的傑克·登普西，但事實上他更接近桑尼·利斯頓：泰森是黑人，令人畏懼，注定早逝。令利斯頓成為棄兒的原因，某種程度上也使泰森成為一代人心中的象徵，一代在嘻哈與槍聲的背景音樂中長大的世代，而這正是他的經紀團隊無法理解的。正如彼得·古拉尼克（Peter Guralnick）在《通往孟菲斯的最後列車》中為艾維斯（Elvis）所做，以及詹姆斯·卡普蘭（James Kaplan）在《弗蘭克》中為辛納屈（Sinatra）所做，克里格爾為泰森所做的，不僅捕捉了他令人眼花繚亂的崛起，也刻畫了他在美國心靈中的地位。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.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Mark KriegelMark Kriegel, a former sports columnist for the New York Post and the 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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