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   Oct 1, 1995 · 196 ratings15 reviews. An updated edition of award-winning columnist Jack Newfield’s best-selling biography of America’s boxing mogul, the source for the Emmy-winning movie Don Only in America.

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   • Author: Jack Newfield

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   READ REVIEW. ONLY IN AMERICA: The Life and Crimes of Don King. by Jack Newfield ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 14, 1995. A two-fisted, no-punches-pulled expose‚ of boxing promoter Don King.

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   Jan 1, 1995 · Only in America: The Life and Crimes of Don King. Hardcover – January 1, 1995. Chronicles the flamboyant boxing promoter's rise from street crime and numbers running to his current role as a larger-than-life and tremendously wealthy force in the boxing world.

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   • Publish Year: 1995

   • Author: Jack Newfield
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   Jul 18, 2024 · In the meritocracy of hustlerdom - the universe of P. T. Barnum, Jimmy Hoffa, and Colonel Tom Parker - Don King is a reigning monarch. He is a Vegas patriot, a ghetto Machiavelli whose intelligence and resiliency have enabled him to dominate boxing for a generation. But Don King has a dark side.

   • Author: Jack Newfield

   • Publish Year: 1995

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   BUY THIS BOOK. Only in America: The Life and Crimes of Don King. Jack Newfield. William Morrow & Company, $23 (352pp) ISBN 978-0-688-10123-7. In 1966, when King was the biggest numbers banker...

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   May 1, 2003 · An updated edition of award-winning columnist Jack Newfield’s best-selling biography of America’s boxing mogul, the source for the Emmy-winning movie Don King: Only in America.

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   Who said only in America could a Don King happen?

   • Don King is quoted as saying 'Only in America could a Don King happen'. He adopted 'Only in America' as a catchphrase, billing himself as 'Don 'Only in America' King. I never get tired because it ain't energy that's being dispensed. It is GOD speaking through me.' (Max Factor, Elizabeth Arden, in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations, 1990).

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   Did Don King kill Sam Garrett?

   • Newfield, a syndicated columnist for the New York Post and a veteran of 30 years on the sports scene, documents boxing promoter Don King's successful and reprehensible career from his early days as a street hustler. In 1966, King was convicted of manslaughter when he kicked Sam Garrett to death in a gambling beef.

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   How did Martin Luther King become a boxer?

   • In 1966, when King was the biggest numbers banker in Cleveland, he beat to death a man who owed him money. After serving fewer than four years of a second-degree murder conviction, he was paroled and immediately got into the boxing promoting business, helped by, among others, rock and roll songwriter/ performer Lloyd Price and Muhammad Ali.

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   How did Martin Luther King promote racism?

   • Newfield, in meticulous detail, shows how King promoted white racism and black racism with equal enthusiasm; his ties to the Cleveland mob; how he "stole" Larry Holmes; his betrayal of both Price and Ali; his relationship with Mike Tyson; and his very creative bookkeeping, which led to a 1994 indictment for wire fraud.

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   Mar 16, 2011 · An updated edition of award-winning columnist Jack Newfield’s best-selling biography of America’s boxing mogul, the source for the Emmy-winning movie Don King: Only in America. When Jack Newfield’s unauthorized biography of Don King first appeared in 1995 it was hailed as one of the most important pieces of sports journalism of the decade.