Skip to search
Skip to main content
Catalog
Help
Feedback
Your Account
Library Account
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Search History
Search in
Keyword
Title (keyword)
Author (keyword)
Subject (keyword)
Title starts with
Subject (browse)
Author (browse)
Author (sorted by title)
Call number (browse)
search for
Search
Advanced Search
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Princeton University Library Catalog
Start over
Cite
Send
to
SMS
Email
EndNote
RefWorks
RIS
Printer
Bookmark
Iron ambition : my life with Cus D'Amato / Mike Tyson ; with Larry "Ratso" Sloman.
Author
Tyson, Mike, 1966-
[Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Blue Rider Press, [2017]
©2017
Description
465 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Availability
Copies in the Library
Location
Call Number
Status
Location Service
Notes
Firestone Library - Stacks
GV1132.T97 A3 2017
Browse related items
Request
Details
Subject(s)
Boxers (Sports)
—
United States
—
Biography
[Browse]
African American boxers
—
Biography
[Browse]
Boxing trainers
—
United States
—
Biography
[Browse]
Tyson, Mike 1966-
[Browse]
D'Amato, Cus
[Browse]
Author
Sloman, Larry
[Browse]
Library of Congress genre(s)
Autobiographies
[Browse]
Summary note
From the former heavyweight champion and memoirist comes an intimate look at the life and leadership lessons of Cus D'Amato, the legendary boxing trainer and Mike Tyson's surrogate father. When Cus D'Amato first saw thirteen-year-old Mike Tyson spar in the ring, he proclaimed, "That's the heavyweight champion of the world." D'Amato, who had previously managed the careers of world champions Floyd Patterson and Jose Torres, would go on to train the young Tyson and raise him as a son. D'Amato died a year before Tyson became the youngest heavyweight champion in history. In Tyson's memoir Undisputed Truth, he recounted the role D'Amato played in his formative years, adopting him at age sixteen after his mother died and shaping him both physically and mentally after Tyson had spent years living in fear and poverty. In Iron Ambition, Tyson elaborates on the life lessons that D'Amato passed down to him, and reflects on how the trainer's words of wisdom continue to resonate with him outside the ring. The book also chronicles Cus's fight against the mobsters who controlled boxing, revealing more than we've ever known about this singular cultural figure.
ISBN
9780399177033 ((hardcover))
0399177035 ((hardcover))
LCCN
2017007907
OCLC
980858486
Other standard number
40027280596
Statement on language in description
Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage.
Read more...
Other views
Staff view
Ask a Question
Suggest a Correction
Report Harmful Language
Supplementary Information
Other versions
Iron ambition : my life with Cus D'Amato / Mike Tyson ; with Larry "Ratso" Sloman.
id
SCSB-10907788