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Article: A new book chronicles Dempsey-Tunney bouts
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 26, 1996
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If there's anything you wanted to know about the two Jack
Dempsey-Gene Tunney fights of 1926 and 1927 in Philadelphia and
Chicago, you can find it in When Dempsey Fought Tunney.
The new book on the fights that drew more than 100,000 fans
each was written by Bruce J. Evensen, an associate professor in the
Department of Communications at DePaul University who spent almost
five years working on it.
Subtitled "Heroes, Hokum, and Storytelling in the Jazz Age,"
Evensen makes a compelling case for these fights and their promoter,
Tex Rickard, helping beckon the modern age of opulence and celebrity.
The book chronicles changes in media and public appetite that we
take for granted today but ...