{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "In 1974 in Kinshasa, Za\u00efre, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fight each other. One was Muhammad Ali, the aging but irrepressible \u201cprofessor of boxing.\u201d The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was voluble. Observing them was Norman Mailer, a commentator of unparalleled energy, acumen, and audacity. Whether he is analyzing the fighters\u2019 moves, interpreting their characters, or weighing their competing claims on the African and American souls, Mailer\u2019s grasp of the titanic battle\u2019s feints and stratagems\u2014and his sensitivity to their deeper symbolism\u2014makes this book a masterpiece of the literature of sport."}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2020-07-31T22:30:48.660429"}, "title": "The Fight", "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T22:25:39.660399"}, "covers": [6295436], "subject_places": ["United States"], "first_publish_date": "1975", "subject_people": ["Muhammad Ali (1942-)", "George Foreman (1949-)", "Muhammad Ali", "George Foreman"], "key": "/works/OL1822227W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL218440A"}}], "latest_revision": 10, "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Boxing", "Ali, muhammad, 1942-2016", "Foreman, george, 1949-"], "revision": 10}