Cinderella man /
During the Great Depression, an everyday common-man hero, James J. Braddock was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. With the Depression going strong in the early 1930s, the impoverished ex-boxer was seemingly as broken-down and out-of-luck as the rest of the America. Driv...
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| Language: | English |
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Harlow :
Pearson Education,
2008.
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| Series: | Penguin readers.
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Table of Contents:
- A lucky man
- Hard times
- An embarrassemnt
- A new life
- Broken promises
- One fight only
- Back in the ring
- A second chance
- Not the same guy
- Night in the park
- Face to face with the champion
- The big day
- The hopes of the crowd
- The luckiest man.