عدسة مكبرة
بحث محمل

Jeff Leen 
Queen of the Ring 
Sex, Muscles, Diamonds, and the Making of an American Legend

الدعم
The story of Mildred Burke, the longest reigning champion of female wrestling, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Kings of Cocaine.   In this in-depth account, journalist Jeff Leen pulls back the curtain on a forgotten era when a petite midwesterner used her beauty and brawn to dominate America’s most masculine sport.   At only five feet two, Mildred Burke was an unlikely candidate for the ring. A waitress barely scraping by on Depression-era tips, she saw her way out when she attended her first wrestling match. When women were still struggling for equality with men, Burke regularly fought—and beat—male wrestlers. Rippling with muscle and dripping with diamonds, she walked the fine line between pin-up beauty and hardened brawler.   An unforgettable slice of Americana,  The Queen of the Ring captures the golden age of wrestling, when one gritty, glamorous woman rose through the ranks to take her place in athletic history.   “Jeff Leen has made a fabulous contribution to the sports-history canon. The Queen of the Ring is a marvelous evocation of an era, and a riveting portrait of a one-of-a-kind American moll.” —Sally Jenkins, author of The Real All Americans
€22.60
طرق الدفع
Buy this ebook and get 1 more FREE!
لغة الإنجليزية ● شكل EPUB ● ISBN 9780802199935 ● الناشر Grove/Atlantic, Inc. ● نشرت 2010 ● للتحميل 6 مرات ● دقة EUR ● هوية شخصية 2463183 ● حماية النسخ Adobe DRM
يتطلب قارئ الكتاب الاليكتروني قادرة DRM

المزيد من الكتب الإلكترونية من نفس المؤلف (المؤلفين) / محرر

66٬554 كتب إلكترونية في هذه الفئة