Boxing Is . . .
Reflections on the Sweet Science
Thomas Hauser

Captures a remarkable year in boxing—2009

“Hauser writes about professional boxing in a way that no one has ever done before.”
—Playboy

“Incomparable and indispensable.”
—New York Times

“Many journalists have written fine boxing pieces, but none has written as extensively or as memorably as Hauser. . . . Hauser remains the current champ of boxing literature.”
—Booklist

Thomas Hauser has become “must reading” in the boxing community, and his latest book demonstrates why. Boxing Is . . . brings together all of Hauser’s 2009 articles. In them, Hauser illuminates the behind-the-scenes stories of the year’s most memorable personalities and events. He takes us from Manny Pacquiao’s dressing room in the tense moments before 2009’s biggest fight to an in-depth portrait of the incomparable Sugar Ray Robinson, all the while continuing to show why his annual collections, avidly anticipated by fans and critics alike, have become, according to columnist Bart Barry, “an essential part of boxing’s official record and the chronicles of this era most likely to endure.”

Thomas Hauser is the author of thirty-nine books. His first work, Missing, was made into an Academy Award–winning film. He later authored Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times, the definitive biography of the most famous fighter ever. In 2004, the Boxing Writers Association of America honored Hauser with the Nat Fleischer Award for Career Excellence in Boxing Journalism.

November
6 x 9, 335 pages
$22.50 paper
ISBN 978-1-55728-942-1
North American rights only.