"When Joe Louis (1914--1981) knocked out the German boxer Max Schmeling in 1938 in two minutes and four seconds, the entire nation--black and white--celebrated the "fight of the century" as a victory of t"
"Joe Louis" depicts the prizefighter's life, and the times in which he lived, from his childhood in a sharecropper's cabin in Alabama and his formative years in Detroit to his legendary career, her service in the Army, and his stint as a professional wrestler after retiring from boxing in 1951. 103 illustrations, 22 in color.