"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Fighting Words
Going back to Pierce Egan and William Hazlitt in 19th-century Britain, boxing has never lacked for talented scribes, and in America they’ve come from all corners of the literary world: the finest novelists and essayists, from Jack London and H.L. Mencken to Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, and Joyce Carol Oates.
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