Kahn, Roger – A Flame of Pure Fire. Jack Dempsey and the Roaring ’20s

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Kahn, Roger ‘A Flame of Pure Fire. Jack Dempsey and the Roaring 20s’ 1999 1st edition. 474-pages. VG with a very good dust jacket that has a dime size sticker residue in the top right corner of the front of the jacket.

A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring ’20s by Roger Kahn is a compelling biography of the legendary heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey that weaves his life story tightly into the cultural and social tapestry of the 1920s. Kahn, a renowned sports journalist who actually befriended Dempsey later in life, uses the fighter’s trajectory to mirror a rapidly changing, prosperous, and tumultuous America.