Bøger af Thomas Hauser

Readers, writers, and critics alike look forward to each new collection of Thomas Hauser's articles about today's boxing scene. Reviewing these books, Booklist has proclaimed, "Many journalists have written fine boxing pieces, but none has written as extensively or as memorably as Thomas Hauser. . . . Hauser remains the current champion of boxing. . . . He is a treasure." Hauser's newest collection meets this high standard. The Universal Sport features Hauser's coverage of 2021 and 2022 in boxing. As always, Hauser chronicles the big fights and gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at boxing's biggest stars. He offers a cogent look the rise of women's boxing and shines a penetrating light on the murky world of illegal performance enhancing drugs and financial corruption at the sport's highest levels. He explores how boxing has become a tool in the high-stakes world of "sportswashing" by Saudi Arabia and a flash point for discussions about Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine. The book culminates in a memorable four-part essay on the craft of writing coupled with reflections on Hauser's own induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

Thomas Hauser has resurrected the spirited of boxing"-George Foreman, World Heavy Weight Champion"Hauser, always a skilled writer, outdoes himself here. He puts you in this fight. And as you continue to read, he makes you understand in a way that will jolt your psyche. He will challenge you not to put this book down. And you will lose.He will open your mind to look into what we call the "sweet science." But beyond that, he will tear away the tinsel of a title fight and cut into the scab of its brutality. He will expose it all here. It is raw, painful, beautiful and, above all, real.This is one hell of a book. " - Jerry Izenberg Legendary Sportswriter , Inductee International Boxing Hall of Fame. From the renowned author of Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times, Thomas Hauser''s most rivetingwork to date tells the tale of a young fighter who rises from hard origins to challenge for the mostcoveted prize in sports: the undisputed heavyweight championship of the world.Moving back and forth with increasing intensity between the bright lights and shadows ofprofessional boxing, Waiting for Carver Boyd is about hope, anger, loss, and belief in oneself. It''s alove story with a special twist.Hauser, an unparalleled chronicler of the contemporary boxing scene, strips the sport bare of itsglamour and glitz to give readers an inside look at how the sweet science really works.Reviews:"Hauser is the most respected boxing journalist working today and perhaps the best ever."- Booklist"Thomas Hauser is a great writer. He knows boxing and tells it like it is. I''ve been there. I know."- Larry Holmes"There is no one better equipped to write about boxing than Thomas Hauser." - Joe Frazier"A hundred years from now, if people want to learn about boxing in this era, they''ll read ThomasHauser." - Lennox LewisTHE GUARDIAN: Thomas Hauser is best known for Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times, whichwon the William Hill sports book of the year prize in 1991. But he was writing novels long beforethat, and his latest makes use of his deep knowledge of the boxing world. Hollywood executivesought to be weighing its big-screen potential.THE TIMES (OF LONDON): Bringing a spectator sport to life on the page is no mean feat. Hauserpulls it off in spare and direct prose that can be read in one breathless sitting.

"In the Inner Sanctum, Thomas Hauser's latest essay collection, explores the fight night in boxing. Hauser chronicles the most dramatic hours in boxers' lives-the very moment when a fighter's physical well-being and financial future are on the line, when the fighter is most at risk and most alive"--

Each year, readers, writers, and critics alike look forward to Thomas Hauser's newest collection of articles about the contemporary boxing scene. Broken Dreams presents coverage of 2020's most important fighters and fights, outside-the-ring controversies, regulatory missteps, and other issues that defined the year's boxing scene.

Called to Moscow to help patients needing bone marrow transplants after the Chernobyl disaster, Dr. Gale gives an eye-opening account, telling the full story of his historic journey and offers a penetrating analysis of the nature of nuclear energy and nuclear weapons, their development, and the role they will play in our future.

Each year, readers, writers, and critics alike look forward to Thomas Hauser's newest collection of articles about the contemporary boxing scene. Staredown offers inside reporting from the dressing room before some of last year's biggest fights, in-depth investigations into corruption in boxing, and more.

An evocative historical novel that explores the rising influence of Dickenss work in mid-19th century London through the journey of a young womans struggle against poverty and injustice.In the winter of 1836, a young journalist named Charles Dickens held an infant in his arms. Only eight months of age, Ruby Spriggs was living under the most deplorable conditions that existed in London. Crushing poverty seemed her only future.Through the intervention of kind patrons, the child blossoms into a young woman instilled with a love of learning and books. But the forces that Dickens fought against for most of his life threaten to destroy her.At the heart of The Bakers Tale is Ruby Spriggs; Edwin Chatfield, the young man who would be her lover; Alexander Murd, the scheming coal baron who would destroy them; Abraham Hart, a dwarf who befriends Ruby in a faraway land; and Octavius Joy, a 19th-century philanthropist cut from unique cloth.Meticulously researched and masterfully told, The Bakers Tale recreates the voice of beloved author Charles Dickens in gorgeous prose brimming with the atmosphere of historical London. It's a gripping tale of obsession, corruption, hope, and love instilled with the unequaled passion of Dickenss social conscience.

Pulitzer prize nominee and William Hill award-winning writer Thomas Hauser's tribute to Ali, the greatest sporting icon the world has ever seen.Few global personalities have commanded an all-encompassing sporting and cultural audience like Muhammad Ali. Many have tried to interpret in words his impact and legacy. Now, Muhammad Ali: A Tribute to the Greatest allows us to more fully appreciate the truth and understand both the man and the ways in which he helped recalibrate how the world perceives its transcendent figures.In this companion volume to his seminal biography of Ali, New York Times bestselling author Thomas Hauser provides an updated retrospective of Ali's life. Relying on personal insights, interviews with close associates and other contemporaries of Ali, and memories gathered over the course of decades on the cutting edge of boxing journalism, Hauser explores Ali in detail inside and outside the ring.Muhammad Ali has attained mythical status. But in recent years, he has been subjected to an image makeover by corporate America as it seeks to homogenise the electrifying nature of his persona. Hauser argues that there has been a deliberate distortion of what Ali believed, said, and stood for, and that making Ali more presentable for advertising purposes by sanitising his legacy is a disservice to history and to Ali himself.Muhammad Ali: A Tribute to the Greatest strips away the revisionism to reveal the true Ali, and, through Hauser's assembled writing and hitherto unpublished essays, recounts the life journey of a man universally recognised as a unique and treasured world icon.

Each year, readers, writers, and critics alike look forward to Thomas Hauser's newest collection of articles about the contemporary boxing scene. Reviewing his 2018 collection, Booklist proclaimed, ""This is Hauser in a nutshell: compassion, character, and context. As always, an annual delight.

Each year, readers, writers, and critics alike anticipate Thomas Hauser's newest collection of articles about the contemporary boxing scene. Protect Yourself at All Times offers a behind-the-scenes look at Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor, dressing room reports from big fights, and compelling portraits of luminaries like Muhammad Ali.

In 2016, Booklist observed, ""Thomas Hauser is a treasure. Whatever he writes is worth reading. Boxing is blessed that he has focused so much of his career on the sweet science."" There Will Always Be Boxing continues this tradition of excellence, showing why Hauser is one of the last real champions of boxing and one of the very best who has ever written about the sport.

This is the tenth annual volume of Thomas Hauser's boxing articles to be published by the University of Arkansas Press. This edition offers a behind-the-scenes recounting of 2014's biggest fights, a look at Floyd Mayweather's conduct in and out of the ring, analysis of fight impresario Al Haymon's burgeoning empire, and much more.

"Booklist "called "Straight Writes and Jabs," last year's collection of boxing articles by Thomas Hauser, "wonderful writing from a world-class journalist." This year's collection, "Thomas Hauser on Boxing," is the latest in the popular annuals bringing together all Hauser's writing from the previous year. Readers will enter the dressing room with elite champions in the moments before some of 2013's biggest fights. Hauser's award-winning investigative journalism is on display in his prize-winning expose of the tragedy that befell heavyweight boxer Magomed Abdusalamov. There's a look at the incomparable Don King in the twilight of his career, and much more.

Thomas Hauser's recording of the contemporary boxing scene has become boxing's most eagerly anticipated written work. And the New... is the latest compilation of Hauser's essential catalogue on boxing. It brings readers into the dressing room with fighters like Manny Pacquiao and Sergio Martinez, exposes the inner workings of HBO Sports, and the economic realities that drive boxing today.

Thomas Hauser is best known as Muhammad Ali's biographer and for his recording of the contemporary boxing scene. "Booklist" called Hauser "the most respected boxing journalist working today and perhaps the best ever." Robert Lipsyte said Hauser is "the best boxing writer of our time." Still, Hauser's love of sports began not with boxing but with baseball. Long before he turned to the sweet science, America's national pastime had captured his heart. His childhood allegiance was to the New York Yankees. Growing up in the suburbs of New York, he cheered for the Giants in football and Knicks in basketball. In college, the often-hapless Columbia Lions became his cause. "Thomas Hauser on Sports" brings together Hauser's articles on sports other than boxing. It combines personal memories with issue-oriented commentary and an intimate look at some of the most remarkable athletes of modern times. Hauser has dealt one-on-one with Ted Williams, Mickey Mantle, Arnold Palmer, Pete Rose, Arthur Ashe, Wilt Chamberlain, and other giants of sports. He has crossed swords with the likes of Marvin Miller and Howard Cosell. "Thomas Hauser on Sports" is a remarkable journey that begins in the days of Hauser's youth and follows the games we play into the era of steroids and multi-billion-dollar television contracts.

One of the most recognisable, respected and inspirational men on earth, Muhammad Ali is the world's most famous boxing hero. Ali brought unprecedented speed and grace to the sport, and his charm and wit changed forever what the world expects of a champion athlete. This is the ultimate biography to match Ali's lifetime of extraordinary achievements.