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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Monograph
- Publication Date
- 2010-05-01
- Era
- 1920s
- Special Attributes
- Illustrated
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Country
- USA
- Book Title
- Shelby's Folly
- Subjects
- History & Military
- Modified Item
- No
- ISBN
- 9780803226555
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
0803226551
ISBN-13
9780803226555
eBay Product ID (ePID)
79272783
Product Key Features
Book Title
Shelby's Folly : Jack Dempsey, Doc Kearns, and the Shakedown of a Montana Boomtown
Number of Pages
238 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Topic
Boxing, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Business Aspects, History
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Sports & Recreation, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
15.5 Oz
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2009-040609
Reviews
" Shelby's Folly is such fun to read. Kelly builds toward the fight with insight into the backgrounds and personalities of Dempsey and Kearns, Gibbons, the Shelby town leaders, and the web of fight arrangers and their negotiations."-Ken Robison, Montana, The Magazine of Western History, "[Shelby''s Follyis] a great story of a town prostituting itself to sport-and one that has been repeated many times since."-D. R. Danbom,Time Out for Entertainment, �A friend once told me about driving to Shelby. I was jealous. No more. Now Jason Kelly has taken us not only to the place but to the time. His vivid piece of Americana breathes life into legends.��Dave Kindred, author of Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship, "Jason Kelly''s Shelby''s Folly is a highly entertaining slice of American history using Jack Dempsey's July 4, 1922, heavyweight title fight versus Tommy Gibbons as a backdrop for brazen American optimism, small town politics, and snake oil salesmanship."Richard Arlin Stull, ARETE, "[ Shelby''s Folly is] a great story of a town prostituting itself to sportand one that has been repeated many times since."D. R. Danbom, Time Out for Entertainment, "Jason Kelly's Shelby's Folly is a highly entertaining slice of American history using Jack Dempsey's July 4, 1922, heavyweight title fight versus Tommy Gibbons as a backdrop for brazen American optimism, small town politics, and snake oil salesmanship."-Richard Arlin Stull, ARETE, "The University of Nebraska Press has published a simply marvelous book by author Jason Kelly detailing the tale of a little-known Montana mining town trying to break into the sporting world big leagues by promoting a heavyweight championship fight featuring the immortal Jack Dempsey."-John Rinaldi, USA Boxing News, "Jason Kelly''sShelby''s Follyis a highly entertaining slice of American history using Jack Dempsey's July 4, 1922, heavyweight title fight versus Tommy Gibbons as a backdrop for brazen American optimism, small town politics, and snake oil salesmanship."Richard Arlin Stull,ARETE, "The University of Nebraska Press has published a simply marvelous book by author Jason Kelly detailing the tale of a little-known Montana mining town trying to break into the sporting world big leagues by promoting a heavyweight championship fight featuring the immortal Jack Dempsey."John Rinaldi, USA Boxing News, "The University of Nebraska Press has published a simply marvelous book by author Jason Kelly detailing the tale of a little-known Montana mining town trying to break into the sporting world big leagues by promoting a heavyweight championship fight featuring the immortal Jack Dempsey."John Rinaldi,USA Boxing News, "[ Shelby's Folly is] a great story of a town prostituting itself to sport-and one that has been repeated many times since."-D. R. Danbom, Time Out for Entertainment, "[ Shelby's Folly is a great story of a town prostituting itself to sport-and one that has been repeated many times since."-D. R. Danbom, Time Out for Entertainment, "A friend once told me about driving to Shelby. I was jealous. No more. Now Jason Kelly has taken us not only to the place but to the time. His vivid piece of Americana breathes life into legends."Dave Kindred, author of Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship, "A friend once told me about driving to Shelby. I was jealous. No more. Now Jason Kelly has taken us not only to the place but to the time. His vivid piece of Americana breathes life into legends."-Dave Kindred, author of Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship, " Shelby''s Folly is such fun to read. Kelly builds toward the fight with insight into the backgrounds and personalities of Dempsey and Kearns, Gibbons, the Shelby town leaders, and the web of fight arrangers and their negotiations."-Ken Robison, Montana, The Magazine of Western History
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
796.830922 B
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations 1. High Noon in Shelby 2. Boom and Bust 3. The Cerebral Slugger 4. A Shark Takes the Bait 5. Sticky Fingers 6. A $300,000 IOU 7. The Circus Comes to Town 8. Checks and Balances 9. Under Water 10. Standing Their Ground 11. A Cut of Heaven's Gate Bibliography
Synopsis
In 1923, not long after oil had started gushing from northern Montana fields, real-estate sales in nearby Shelby were declining, dimming the little town's prospects of becoming the "Tulsa of the West." Then the mayor's son dreamed up a marketing ploy: offer to host heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey's next fight. What began as a publicity stunt soon spiraled into a civic drama unlike any Montana had ever seen--or ever would again. Shelby's Folly tells this story in full for the first time. Against the background of boom-and-bust Montana history, the folly of Shelby's would-be promoters unfolds in colorful detail. It took months to persuade Dempsey's conniving manager, Jack "Doc" Kearns, to sign a $300,000 contract. With less than two months before the July 4th fight, the town still had no stadium and no accommodations for tens of thousands of expected fans. Jason Kelly describes the promoters' desperate measures and their disastrous results, from the first inkling of the idea to the bitter end of the fifteen-round boxing match. Shelby residents identified with the underdog challenger, Tommy Gibbons, who went toe-to-toe with the champion in an atmosphere crackling with tension. Nerves were so frayed that a holiday firecracker exploding in the arena sent shockwaves of fear through the crowd. A soap opera of financial intrigue and chicanery, Shelby's Folly chronicles how Big Sky ambition and the scheming mind of Doc Kearns collided to produce one of the most preposterous series of events in boxing history. Watch the Shelby's Folly book trailer on YouTube., In 1923, not long after oil had started gushing from northern Montana fields, real-estate sales in nearby Shelby were declining. The mayor's son dreamed up a marketing ploy: offer to host heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey's next fight. What began as a publicity stunt soon spiraled into a civic drama unlike any Montana had ever seen - or ever would again. Shelby's Folly tells this story in full.
LC Classification Number
GV1132.D4K45 2010
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