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The Prizefighter and the Playwright ~ Gene Tunney the world heavyweightboxing champion—and one of the greatest champions of the twentieth century—seemed an unusual companion for Nobel Prize winner George Bernard Shaw But Shaw hailed as the greatest playwright of his time and most famous man of his generation found the younger IrishAmerican athlete to be “among the very few for whom I have established a warm affection”

The Prizefighter and the Playwright Gene ~ The man of the body bullies while the man of the mind retreats to intellectual arrogance Such was not the case with 1920s heavyweight boxing champion Gene Tunney and famed playwright George Bernard Shaw who forged a close relationship recalled here by one of Tunneys sons

The Prizefighter and the Playwright Gene Tunney and ~ Gene Tunney the world heavyweightboxing champion from 1926 to 1928 seemed an unusual companion for George Bernard Shaw but Shaw a worldfamous playwright found the IrishAmerican athlete to be among the very few for whom I have established a warm affection

The Prizefighter and the Playwright Gene Tunney and ~ George Bernard Shaw and Gene Tunney had a close friendship borne of interest in the work of the other combined with a near tragic incident in their lives Tunneys son writes an extremely loving book about his father one can tell that he put a lot of time into the work and it shows a very readable and moving book

Prizefighter and the Playwright Gene Tunney and George ~ The man of the body bullies while the man of the mind retreats to intellectual arrogance Such was not the case with 1920s heavyweight boxing champion Gene Tunney and famed playwright George Bernard Shaw who forged a close relationship recalled here by one of Tunneys sons

Project MUSE The Playwright and the Prizefighter ~ Bernard Shaw wrote a lecture in London in 1884 on Shakespeares comparatively unnoticed play Troilus and Cressida saying he thought it marked the crossroad in all of Shakespeares plays Fortyfour years later Gene Tunney then heavyweight boxing champion of the world was invited to give a lecture at Yale University on Shakespeare

The Prizefighter and the Playwright Gene Tunney and ~ Gene Tunney the world heavyweightboxing champion from 1926 to 1928 seemed an unusual companion for George Bernard Shaw but Shaw a worldfamous playwright found the IrishAmerican athlete to be among the very few for whom I have established a warm affection

The Prizefighter and the Playwright Gene Tunney and ~ The Prizefighter and the Playwright Gene Tunney and Bernard Shaw draws on a mass of material including the memories of the authors mother Polly Lauder Tunney who died in 2008 aged 100 to provide the first truly satisfying account of Tunneys character and of much of his life after boxing largely ignored in two recent biographies

The Prizefighter and the Playwright Gene Tunney and ~ The Prizefighter and the Playwright Gene Tunney and Bernard Shaw draws on a mass of material including the memories of the authors mother Polly Lauder Tunney who died in 2008 aged 100 to provide the first truly satisfying account of Tunneys character and of much of his life after boxing largely ignored in two recent biographies


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