Baddest Man: The Making of Mike Tyson 泰森自传英语电子书

From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author whose coverage of Mike Tyson and his inner circle dates back to the 1980s, a magnificent noir epic about fame, race, greed, criminality, trauma, and the creation of the most feared and mesmerizing fighter in boxing history.

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Baddest Man: The Making of Mike Tyson

On an evening that defined the “greed is good” 1980s, Donald Trump hosted a raft of celebrities and high rollers in a carnival town on the Jersey Shore to bask in the glow created by a twenty-one-year-old heavyweight champion. Mike Tyson knocked out Michael Spinks that night and in ninety-one frenzied seconds earned more than the annual payrolls of the Los Angeles Lakers’ and Boston Celtics’ players combined.

It had been just eight years since Tyson, a feral child from a dystopian Brooklyn neighborhood, was delivered to boxing’s forgotten wizard, Cus D’Amato, who was living a self-imposed exile in upstate New York. Together, Cus and the Kid were an irresistible story of mutual redemption—darlings to the novelists, screenwriters, and newspapermen long charmed by D’Amato, and perfect for the nascent industry of cable television. Way before anyone heard of Tony Soprano, Mike Tyson was HBO’s leading man.

It was the greatest sales job in the sport’s history, and the most lucrative. But the business of Tyson concealed truths that were darker and more nuanced than the script would allow.

The intervening decades have seen Tyson villainized, lionized, and fetishized—but never, until now, fully humanized. Mark Kriegel, an acclaimed biographer regarded as “the finest boxing writer in America,” was a young cityside reporter at the New York Daily News when he was first swept up in the Tyson media hurricane, but here he measures his subject not by whom he knocked out but by what he survived. Though Tyson was billed as a modern-day Jack Dempsey, in truth he was closer to Sonny Liston: Tyson was Black, feared, and born to die young. What made Liston a pariah, though, would make Tyson—in a way his own handlers could never understand—a touchstone for a generation raised on a soundtrack of hip hop and gunfire.

What Peter Guralnick did for Elvis in Last Train to Memphis and James Kaplan for Sinatra in Frank, Kriegel does for Tyson. It’s not just the dizzying ascent that he captures but also Tyson’s place in the American psyche.

这是一部关于名利、种族、贪婪、犯罪、创伤以及拳击史上蕞可怕、蕞令人着迷的拳击手的壮丽黑色史诗，出自着茗的《纽约时报》畅金肖书作家之手，他对迈克-泰森及其核心圈子的报道可以追溯到 20 世纪 80 年代。

在 20 世纪 80 年代的一个决定性夜晚，唐纳德-特朗普（Donald Trump）在泽西海岸的一个小镇宴请名流和富豪，见证了 21 岁的迈克-泰森（Mike Tyson）在短短 91 秒内击倒迈克尔-斯平克斯（Michael Spinks），其收入炒过了洛杉矶湖人队（Los Angeles Lakers）和波士顿凯尔特人队（Boston Celtics）年薪的总和。

仅仅八年前，来自布鲁克林的问题少年泰森在纽约北部被拳击传奇人物库斯-达马托收为徒弟。他们相互救赎的故事吸引了小说家、编剧和新兴的有线电视行业。泰森早在《托尼-索普拉诺》（Tony Soprano）之前就成为了 HBO 的男主角。

尽管取得了苣大成功，泰森的故事却比表面看起来更加复杂和黑暗。几十年来，他曾被恶搞、被赞美、被迷恋，但从未被完全人性化，直到现在。着茗传记作家马克-克里格尔（Mark Kriegel）作为一名年轻记者苐Ⅰ次接触泰森，他通过泰森的生存经历而不是他击倒的人，探索了泰森的一生。

泰森经常被拿来与杰克-登普西（Jack Dempsey）相提并论，但他更像桑尼-利斯顿（Sonny Liston）–黑人，令人生畏，预计会英年早逝。让利斯顿成为贱民的原因，让泰森成为受嘻哈和枪战影响的一代人的试金石。克里格尔不仅记录了泰森的崛起，还记录了他对美国人心灵的深刻影响。