The Boston Globe, September 26th, 1999
A FLAME OF PURE FIREJack Dempsey and the Roaring '20sBy Roger Kahn. Harcourt Brace. 474 pp. Illustrated. $28.Bill Littlefield is the host of "Only a Game" on National Public Radio. His most recent books are "Keepers" and "Champions: The Stories of Ten Remarkable Athletes." It may be an overstatement to claim, as Roger Kahn does early in "A Flame of Pure Fire," that Jack Dempsey's life was "an epic poem." But the chronicle of this champ does make for a full and entertainingstory, and in Kahn's defense, he's not the only accomplished writer moved to hyperbole by Dempsey. Joyce Carol Oates, born ...
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