Barney Ross: Not Without A Fight March 15, 2006

Douglas Century on "Barney Ross: Not Without A Fight"

"The bitterness and hatred inside me made me a much tougher fighter," said legendary boxer Barney Ross. At 13, Ross saw his father murdered, his mother suffer a nervous breakdown, and his three younger siblings sent to an orphanage. Determined to make enough money to reunite the family, he became a petty thief, a gambler, a messenger boy for Al Capone, and a professional boxer. In his new book, Douglas Century tells how Ross went from being the "Jew Kid" to winning the lightweight, junior welterweight, and welterweight titles. He also describes his heroic actions at Guadalcanal, his addiction to morphine, and his covert missions to run guns to Palestine. Larger than life, Ross' story is also emblematic of the lives of many Jewish immigrants in the early 20th century. Douglas Century is the author of Street Kingdom and Hip Hop Babylon.
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