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Iron Mike collects the best writing on the tumultuous fifteen-year career of the most reviled and idolized athlete in the world, Michael Gerard Tyson. Since becoming, at age nineteen, the youngest heavyweight champion in history, Tyson's dramatic rise, fall, and continuing struggle has provoked more passionate writing, both in and out of the sports pages, than that of any other boxer since Muhammad Ali. Iron Mike is about more than boxing. Like no other athlete, Mike Tyson is at the nexus of America's cultural anxieties about race, class, masculinity, violence, and celebrity; like no other athlete his story of high drama and low comedy inspires writers to wrestle with these themes, with Tyson often no more than the occasion for the writer's own preoccupations. And Tyson has provided many such occasions: his rise to the Undisputed World Heavyweight Championship at age twenty-one; his rocky marriage to Robin Givens; his controversial conviction for the rape of Desiree Washington; his return to boxing and reclamation of the WBC and WBA belts; his biting of Evander Holyfield. Iron Mike is a kaleidoscopic portrait of a man who, for better and worse, is one of the most recognizable, popular, and defining icons of our time. The book includes selections from Joyce Carol Oates, Pete Hamill, Jose Torres, Pete Dexter, Phil Berger, Christopher Hitchens, Robert Lipsyte, Dave Anderson, Jonathan Yardley, Richard Rodriguez, Katherine Dunn, Budd Schulberg, William Plummer, David Remnick, Keith Botsworth, and others.
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book was better than i thought it would be.i Thought i knew mike tyson but after reading this book i found a lot more !
I dont blame mike for anything he's done,when you've read this book youll realise how hard his childhood was...heck the first known picture of him was when he was 10 or 12!no baby pictures, no pair of little mike's first shoes!mike ended up in the tryon school for boys in upstate new york and it was hear that bobby stewart showed him to the legendary cus d'amato.Read how Cus was like a father to mike and how mike embraced camille as his mother!mike was trained by cus to become the youngest heavyweight champion of the world ever!Read on the ups and downs of this remarkable fighters career.How don king affected him and how he delt with 3years in an indiana prison for a rape charge!also read about iron mike's comeback all the way up to his fight with Lennox lewis!Excellent Book ,well worth the read!(and the money)
I dont blame mike for anything he's done,when you've read this book youll realise how hard his childhood was...heck the first known picture of him was when he was 10 or 12!no baby pictures, no pair of little mike's first shoes!mike ended up in the tryon school for boys in upstate new york and it was hear that bobby stewart showed him to the legendary cus d'amato.Read how Cus was like a father to mike and how mike embraced camille as his mother!mike was trained by cus to become the youngest heavyweight champion of the world ever!Read on the ups and downs of this remarkable fighters career.How don king affected him and how he delt with 3years in an indiana prison for a rape charge!also read about iron mike's comeback all the way up to his fight with Lennox lewis!Excellent Book ,well worth the read!(and the money)
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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Finally
23 Jun 2002
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Well, this book is the best all around book I have seen on Iron Mike, and believe me I have seen and read them all. It finally gives an extensive look on this complex individual. Mike is a genius whose greatness may never be understood for years to come. Every quote you you've ever read about him or interview you have ever seen has been doctored to portray him has a brutal, ignorant bully. But in truth he is a very introverted, intelligent, and compassionate human being. But, the media needs a villain so consequently we have an amazing misunderstanding of who the man really is. This book pulls no punches and shows both sides of this often troubled and victimized individual. Be Real Mike and never give up your goal of regaining your belts.
Peace,
Soldier
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
For The Tyson Fan, Hater & Everyone Interested
23 Jun 2004
Format:Paperback
For The Tyson Fan, The Tyson Hater & Everyone Interested In The Tyson Story
Truly a great and encompassing book.
First - you should know that I am a big Mike Tyson enthusiast and supporter.
Iron Mike - A Mike Tyson Reader - is a compilation of stories written by different authors. The chapters go pretty much in chronological order of Tyson's life. From a touch on his childhood to the classic saga of Cus & The Kid to post Holyfield II.
You get different perspectives of Tyson from those that see him in different ways. You get the good, the bad, the beautiful and the ugly.
I felt that a lot of what is covered in the book was pretty fair and balanced (to borrow a phrase). I really appreciated and got a lot out of the different views and different interpretations of Tyson from those who knew him in different avenues of his life.
I went into reading this with a sympathetic view of Mike and this view was reinforced and I was actually given more insight into the hardships that he has had to face as a kid and as an adult.
You would think that with his money and fame how could he have such a hard time, well this book does a good job in showing you how.
What stands out for me is the rape conviction. He had a horrible lawyer - Don King's tax attorney, certain witnesses weren't allowed to testify, certain evidence was not admitted and let's admit it - if he was a Kennedy (see William Kennedy Smith) he wouldn't have gone to jail.
There are some extremely interesting chapters in this that are genuinely eye opening into just how unfairly Mike Tyson has treated and taken advantage of.
Highly recommended to any boxing fan and especially recommended for anyone interested in the story of Tyson - fan or hater - you'll learn something.
No complaints!!! Big hit!!
22 Jan 2012
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I purchased this book for my husband and he read it sooo fast it was ridiculous! He is the biggest Tyson fan ever so finding a book he never read that would compare was a bit of a challenge... The reviews were good from what I read so I bought it as a gift. In his words " the best Tyson book I've read yet " yay! I did good;) I was happy with the purchase!
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