eOw8s (Download pdf ebook) The Good Son: The Life of Ray ',Boom Boom', Mancini Online [eOw8s.ebook] The Good Son: The Life of Ray ',Boom Boom', Mancini Pdf Free Mark Kriegel ePub | *DOC | audiobook | ebooks | Download PDF Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook #793059 in eBooks 2012-09-18 2012-09-18File Name: B0061QATOY | File size: 72.Mb Mark Kriegel : The Good Son: The Life of Ray ',Boom Boom', Mancini before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised The Good Son: The Life of Ray ',Boom Boom', Mancini: 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Great book from the heart of Boom BookBy Gary J. ChenettRay and his career are totally interesting and very open; It is so nice to read a Biograpy about someone that holds little back. We have had to watch so many of our great fighters meet horrible endings to their lives and unfortunately trying to receive the facts about their lives in their words is very difficult.Ray Mancini is one of our great fighters who has it appeares over came the many demons that Stars encounter and is willing to share them.The book also goes into great details on almost every fight he fought and how his career was almost destroyed by the unfortunate death of his opponent Kim Duc (SP) of Korea and how his fight alterered for quite some time his path to becoming a Champion several times after losing fights due to the pchlogical demons he faced after Kim's unfortunate death due to this fight.I have the feeling that any fight fan would be very comfortable talking to Ray ( except sbout the death of Kim) whereever they met him.I found the book as well written and fun read,,,,,,,, If you like the truth and honesty written about someone from the fight game I recommend this book3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Excellent...I felt like I was at the fights.By CustomerThe story is both tragic and inspirational. Dedicating his life to be a champion on behalf of his father is a very powerful message. In todays times where so many families are split and children do not have a positive role model, the story of Ray and his family is a positive one. The writing was excellent as I felt like I was in the ring with the fighters. Great read and I think it is required reading for anyone interested in the fight game.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Great stuff from Kriegel again.By john gardinerGreat read. Most boxing fans who watched Mancini got his story in broad strokes - the son fighting to win the championship that his father was denied because he got drafted to fight in World War II. But there's a lot of insightful stuff about Boom Boom in this book that didn't come out while he was fighting, like the shooting death of his brother. The Duk- koo Kim stuff is great too but it's far from the entire story which was a concern I had after reading Kriegel's article in the NY Times that was based on his book. I credit Mancini for being so open. This is far from a soft biography. Really interesting stuff both from Mancini's youth, his boxing glory days and the years since when the spotlight has no longer been on him.I highly recommend this book and not just to boxing fans. FRANK SINATRA FAWNED OVER HIM. WARREN ZEVON WROTE A TRIBUTE SONG. Sylvester Stallone produced his life story as a movie of the week. In the 1980s, Ray ldquo;Boom Boomrdquo; Mancini wasnrsquo;t merely the lightweight champ. An adoring public considered him a national hero, the real Rocky. From the mobbed-up steel city of Youngstown, Ohio, Mancini was cast as the savior of a sport: a righteous kid in a corrupt game, symbolically potent and demographically perfect, the last white ethnic. He fought for those left behind in busted-out mill towns across America. But most of all, he fought for his father. Lenny Mancinimdash;the original Boom Boom, as he was calledmdash;had been a lightweight contender himself. But the elder Mancinirsquo;s dream ended on a battlefield in November 1944, when fragments from a German mortar shell nearly killed him. Almost four decades later, Ray promised to win the title his father could not. What came of that vow was a feel-good fable for network television. But it all came apart November 13, 1982, in a brutal battle at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Mancinirsquo;s obscure Korean challenger, Duk Koo Kim, went down in the 14th round and never regained consciousness. Three months later, Kimrsquo;s despondent mother took her own life. The deaths would haunt Ray and ruin his carefully crafted image, suddenly transforming boxingrsquo;s All-American Boy into a pariah. Now, thirty years after that nationally televised bout, Mark Kriegel finally uncovers the storyrsquo;s full dimensions. In tracking the Mancini and Kim families across generations, Kriegel exacts confessions and excavates mysteriesmdash;from the killing of Mancinirsquo;s brother to the fate of Kimrsquo;s son. In scenes both brutal and tender, the narrative moves from Youngstown to New York, Vegas to Seoul, Reno to Hollywood, where the inevitably romantic idea of a fighter comes up against reality. With the vivid style and deep reporting that have earned him renown as a biographer, Kriegel has written a fast-paced epic. The Good Son is an intimate history, a saga of fathers and fighters, loss and redemption. "Masterful." (Los Angeles Times)"Superb." (Boston Globe)"The best sports biographer we have today." (The Buffalo News)ldquo;A timeless mythic tale of fathers and sons . Kriegelrsquo;s reporting is impeccable, his passion muted but no less heartfelt for that. It takes one hell of a writermdash;periodmdash;to handle so rich a mix of manhood, legacy, and blood sport with such grace.rdquo; (Scott Raab, Esquire, Best Books of the Year )ldquo;An absorbing blend of psychological drama and fearless reportage, Kriegel deconstructs the sprawling consequences of that fateful day at Caesars Palace, driving at the heart of where the heady romanticism and stark reality of the cruelest sport converge.rdquo; (Sports Illustrated, Best Books of the Year )ldquo;With The Good Son, Kriegel plays a long shot and wins a unanimous decision. Kriegel knows how to set up a good emotional punch, and plays on the major themes of Mancinirsquo;s life like a master novelist.rdquo; (Allen Barra, Chicago Tribune )ldquo;Goes so deep into the history and entanglement of the dysfunctional and violence-based immigrant Mancini family and the men who strived to make their mark within it, that it reads like something Dostoyevsky might have served up, had he been a modern- day sportswriter.rdquo; (Chicago Sun Times)ldquo;Our American literary tradition happily disregards the intellectuals and cherishes the sportswriters. As we should, for the great sportswriter combines the fanrsquo;s love of American Culture with the scribersquo;s intuition of tragedy. Or, as Red Smith, Damon Runyon, or Bill Heinz might have put it: lsquo;Kriegel does for Boom Boom what Margaret Mitchell did for the Civil War.rsquo;rdquo; mdash;David Mamet ldquo;As told by Mark Kriegel, the true tale of Boom Boom Mancini is one of blood and spirit, of the ghosts bequeathed from fathers to sons, from pugilists to their progeny. If The Good Son is a sports book, itrsquo;s the best Irsquo;ve ever read. Either way, in any genre, it is masterful storytelling.rdquo; mdash;David Milch ldquo;The Good Son is muscular, literary sportswriting at its best, which is what we've come to expect from Mark Kriegel. But it's also much, much more. Here is the story not just of the rise and fall of a great prizefighter from a hard-luck industrial townmdash;rendered, throughout, with tremendous heartmdash;but of fathers and sons, (and brothers), of America's hunger for mythic heroes, of the tragic collision of two lives. It's a slender, yet epic book, as graceful, layered and achingly intimate as the finest novel.rdquo; mdash;Jonathan Mahler, author of Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning ldquo;Itrsquo;s easy to say The Good Son will go down as one of the great boxing books of all time. But in telling the story of Ray (Boom Boom) Mancini, Mark Kriegel has accomplished something beyond sports. His book is, put simply, a masterpiece; an ode to father-son relationships, to the drive and makeup of champions; to what it is to experience the high of a world championship and the low of watching an opponent die in the ring. Therersquo;s a reason Kriegel is one of Americarsquo;s elite biographers. The Good Son is spectacular.rdquo; mdash;Jeff Pearlman, New York Times bestselling author of Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton "Honestly, it's simply not possible to write a better bookmdash;sports, non-sports, fiction, non-fictionmdash;than The Good Son, Mark Kriegel's remarkable biography of Boom Boom Mancini, which is by equal turns uplifting, heartbreaking, cautionary and redemptive. And impossible to put down."ndash;ndash;Mike Vaccaro, New York Post columnist "Kriegel is a meticulous researcher and gifted interviewer, and, in this stirring biography, the joy and tragedy experienced by the Mancini family is palpablemdash;never more than in the account of a meeting between Kimrsquo;s son and Ray 30 years after Kim died at Rayrsquo;s hand.