Mike Stanton (1)

Fascinating Rogue, but book is exhaustingly detailed and poorly organized. Brilliant bits, however. At least Cianci invaded no countries and was no worse than the regime he displaced. With better editing and restraint, this book could have been a fascinating account of a really colorful guy.

What I knew about Rocky Marciano before I read the book was that he retired as an undefeated Heavyweight Champion. I did not know about his conduct during World War that got him locked up in jail. I did not know of the mob's influence in his career. I did not realize that his list of opponents while he was champion were of dubious quality, boxers who were on the way down like Joe Louis, Ezzard Charles and Jersey Joe Walcott. Marciano retired right before he would have had to fight the likes show more of Cassius Clay, Sonny Liston and Floyd Patterson to name a few.

Marciano died relatively young in a plane crash. He was not a good businessperson and was lousy with investing and saving money. Marciano succumbed to the good life after boxing and hung around with Frank Sinatra and a number of "made guys."

He's not a very sympathetic figure. Again his boxing record is offset by the relatively low level of his opponents. Good book though... show less

As someone who lived in RI for most of their life and met Buddy on many occasions, this book is pretty spot-on for what occurred

A great subject, but poorly written and poorly edited. Too many non sequiturs and irrelevant sidebars made the book twice as long and half as good as it should have been. It was almost as if the author decided he needed to use all of his notes and threw them in at random.