Very good. I gained a lot of new perspective on race and America.
I learned some new things such as the origin of speech, that speech is generated in the left hemisphere of the brain, that languages can be connected through their phonetic structures, and how distance leads to the creation of new languages. It started to get too boring to pay attention to. I actually went to sleep reading it more than once.
This book is a collection of essays that the golden era of boxing, the 1950s- in my opinion, it wasn't much of a golden era. It was interesting because a number of scenarios that an experienced boxing fan is aware of are covered like the slow decline of a fighter who refuses to acknowledge what is happening, although Liebling could get too bogged down in minor details and jargon. Taken as a whole, it was enlightening.
