Last on His Feet
jack johnson and the battle of the century
$35.19
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2025
Summary
Last on His Feet: The Fight for Jack Johnson’s Legacy
On the morning of July 4, 1910, thousands of boxing fans stormed a newly built stadium in Reno, Nevada, to witness an epic showdown. Jack Johnson, the world’s first Black heavyweight champion—and most infamous athlete in the world because of his race—was paired against Jim Jeffries, a former heavyweight champion then heralded as the “great white hope.” It was the height of the Jim Crow era, and spectators were eager for Jeffries …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781324096139 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1324096136 |
| Author: | Youssef Daoudi, Adrian Matejka |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Imprint: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 884g |
| Dimensions: | 239mm x 180mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
A desert boxing match becomes an epic, a tragic symbol, and a thunderous encapsulation of America’s bloody racial history in this passionately told graphic history from Daoudi (Monk!) and Matejka (The Big Smoke) about America’s first Black heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson (1878-1946) … This is a big brawl of a book that, like the greatest boxing matches, finds the poetry in the violence.–Publishers Weekly, starred reviewThrough a stylish mix of prose, blank verse and illustrations, Last on His Feet captures these tensions with unsparing poignancy.–Brandon Tensley “Smithsonian”
About The Author
Youssef Daoudi
Youssef Daoudi is a comic artist, writer, and illustrator, and the author of Monk!. Previously, he was an art director for multinational advertising firms.
Adrian Matejka is the author of six poetry collections and the graphic novel Last on His Feet. He has been nominated for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, served as the poet laureate of the state of Indiana from 2018–2019, and is editor–in–chief of Poetry magazine. He lives in Chicago.
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