{"product_id":"ingemar-johansson-ken-brooks-9780786498475","title":"Ingemar Johansson: Swedish Heavyweight Boxing Champion","description":"\u003cp\u003e Ingemar Johansson's right hand--dubbed \"The Hammer of Thor\"--was the most fearsome in boxing, and Johansson's three fights with Floyd Patterson rank among the sport's classic rivalries. Yet most fans know little about the Swedish playboy who won the world heavyweight championship with a shocking third round knockout of Patterson and held it for six days short of a year (1959-1960).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e During his reign, the raffish \"Ingo\" hit fashionable nightspots on two continents, romanced Elizabeth Taylor, and refused to kowtow to the mobsters who controlled boxing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This first-ever biography of Johansson chronicles his fistic triumphs as a Goteborg teen prodigy, his humiliating disqualification for \"cowardice\" at the 1952 Olympics, his storybook romances with Birgit Lundgren and Edna Alsterlund and his post-career life and tragic early dementia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ken Brooks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0786498471\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780786498475\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/25\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.60d","brand":"Ken Brooks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44079118057727,"sku":"9780786498475","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_65d3c1d3-e62b-4c16-b839-5205f2ca1e63.jpg?v=1685479395","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ingemar-johansson-ken-brooks-9780786498475","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}