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There 's an operatic, carnival-barker quality to Schulberg 's reporting...that reflects the high-low vertigo of the best sports writing.--Benjamin Healy and Benjamin Schwartz The Atlantic Monthly

Throughout, Schulberg exhibits a boxing IQ matched by his wit. Booklist Brims with fascinating stories... Essential reading for all serious students of the sweet science. -- Gordon Marino The New York Times There's an operatic, carnival-barker quality to Schulberg's reporting...that reflects the high-low vertigo of the best sports writing. -- Benjamin Healy and Benjamin Schwartz The Atlantic Monthly Ringside contains Schulberg's mix of erudition and street authenticity. -- Robert David Jaffee Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles Having covered boxing for more than 60 years...Budd Schulberg knows a thing or two about the sweet science. -- Carole Goldberg Hartford Courant A knockout of a sportswriting collection. Dartmouth Alumni Magazine Schulberg's prose is imperious...Anybody with the slightest interest in the literature of sport should try to get their hands on this book. -- Andrew Baker Telegraph Ringside is that rare thing: a sports book by a writer who has truly lived his subject. Boxing has consumed Shulberg for over half a century and it shows on every absorbing page of this wonderful collection. -- Nick Clarke Independent

Ringside contains Schulberg's mix of erudition and street authenticity.--Robert David Jaffee Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles

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Budd Schulberg is also the author of What Makes Sammy Run?, The Harder They Fall, The Disenchanted, On the Waterfront (play and screenplay), and Moving Pictures: Memories of a Hollywood Prince. He lives in Westhampton Beach, New York.

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