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Tragic Drama / Characters: 8 male, 3 female, extras w/doubling

Winner of Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award!

A great part a tragic hero, cheated, degraded, and at last brutally beaten. Mr. Sackler has used his hero, a figure based on the first Black heavyweight champion of the world, Jack Johnson (played by James Earl Jones), as a symbol in part of Black aspiration...Has an epic scope and range...It picks up the Johnson story soon after the Australian day in 1908 when Johnson whipped Tommy B

The Great White Hope

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    A Paperback by Howard Sackler

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      Publisher: Samuel French Ltd
      Publication Date: 11/17/2010 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780573609602, 978-0573609602
      ISBN10: 0573609608

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Tragic Drama / Characters: 8 male, 3 female, extras w/doubling

      Winner of Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award!

      A great part a tragic hero, cheated, degraded, and at last brutally beaten. Mr. Sackler has used his hero, a figure based on the first Black heavyweight champion of the world, Jack Johnson (played by James Earl Jones), as a symbol in part of Black aspiration...Has an epic scope and range...It picks up the Johnson story soon after the Australian day in 1908 when Johnson whipped Tommy B

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