On a defining evening of the 1980s, Donald Trump hosted celebrities and high rollers in a Jersey Shore town to witness 21yearold Mike Tyson knock out Michael Spinks in just 91 seconds, earning more than the annual payrolls of the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics combined.Only eight years earlier, Tyson, a troubled child from Brooklyn, was taken under the wing of boxing legend Cus DAmato in upstate New York. Their story of mutual redemption captivated novelists, screenwriters, and the emerging cable TV industry. Tyson became HBOs leading man long before Tony Soprano.Despite the immense success, Tysons story was more complex and darker than it appeared. Over the decades, he has been villainized, lionized, and fetishizedbut never fully humanized until now. Acclaimed biographer Mark Kriegel, who first encountered Tyson as a young reporter, explores Tysons life through what he survived rather than whom he knocked out.Tyson, often compared to Jack Dempsey, was more akin to Sonny ListonBlack, feared, and expected to die young. What made Liston a pariah made Tyson a touchstone for a generation influenced by hip hop and gunfire. Kriegel captures not just Tysons rise but his profound impact on the American psyche.

Binding: Hardback;448 pages; Publisher: Ebury Publishing; Classification: BGS; Weight: 786 g; Dimensions: 165 x 244 x 43

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