Article: DEMPSEY BIO PACKS A PUNCH.(Books)(Review)

Article: Getting a glove on Dempsey and his times
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  October 17, 1999 ;     700+ words ...A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20s ... lays out the story of Dempsey as the story of the ... writing, "A Flame of Pure Fire" isn't just a sports ... most, only more so. Dempsey was more than just a ...

Article: Dempsey's beating of Willard started Golden Age of ...
The Washington Times;  July 31, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... pale muscle. Challenger Jack Dempsey was 6-0 and 180, with a lean ... going to be sick to my stomach," Dempsey would say later, according to biographer Roger Kahn in "A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20s." "Willard ...

Article: BIOGRAPHY OF JACK DEMPSEY PAINTS BOXER IN A GENTLER ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  December 30, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Jack Dempsey, the brutal ``Manassa Mauler ... biography, ``A Flame of Pure Fire,'' Roger Kahn gives us a kinder, gentler Dempsey. Although Kahn - a friend ... who died in 1983 - talks of Dempsey's ``snarling intensity ...

Transcript: Interview: Author Roger Kahn discusses the boxing career of ...
Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR);  October 16, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Lake City, Utah, Jack Dempsey. (Soundbite of crowd ... beginning to swagger, Jack Dempsey was the champion. He was ... to Al Capone. A flame of pure fire is what sportswriter John Lardner called Jack Dempsey. Roger Kahn believes that ...

Article: Jack Dempsey
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      464 words ... ... boxer, b. Manassa, Colo. Dempsey, called the "Manassa Mauler ... the first three minutes. Dempsey held the crown until losing ... Tunney in 1926. In a rematch Dempsey knocked Tunney down in the ... R. Kahn, A Flame of Pure Fire (1999).

Article: SHADOW STALKED DEMPSEY.(LIVING)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  June 17, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... biography of the great boxer Jack Dempsey. ''A Flame of Pure Fire,'' written by Roger Kahn ... violent, intimidating Mr. Dempsey. He integrated that life into ... remember that a shadow haunted Dempsey throughout his career. Obviously ...

Article: Book takes a bow to family's boxing history; The Gibbons family ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  October 25, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... week. Tommy Gibbons lost to Jack Dempsey in a 1923 bout that is world ... settlers, nearly went bankrupt when Dempsey and his handlers walked off with ... in his new book, "A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20s," which ...