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Chapters: James Barbour, Philip Pendleton Barbour, Sextus Barbour, Alfred Madison Barbour, John Strode Barbour, John S. Barbour, Jr., Thomas Barbour, Barbour Lathrop,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 41. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: James Barbour (June 10, 1775 - June 7, 1842) was an American lawyer, a member and speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, the 18th Governor of Virginia, the first Governor to reside in the current Virginia Governor's Mansion, a U.S. Senator from 1814-1825, and the United States Secretary of War from 1825-1828. Barbour was a renowned statesman and orator. His abilities to persuade by speech were noted by several of his peers, including John Quincy Adams. Barboursville, Virginia located in Orange County was named after James Barbour. The ruin of Barbour's mansion, Barboursville, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and can be found on the grounds of Barboursville Vineyards in the Madison-Barbour Rural Historic District in Barboursville, Virginia. The mansion was designed by James Barbour's friend, Thomas Jefferson. Barbour County, Alabama is named in his honor. Barbour county in West Virginia, as well as Barbourville, Kentucky and Barboursville, West Virginia are all named in honor of James Barbour. He was the brother of Philip Pendleton Barbour, as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court as well as the first cousin of John S. Barbour and first cousin, once removed of John S. Barbour, Jr.. James Barbour was born in Barboursville, Virginia in Orange County on June 10, 1775. Barbour was the son of Thomas Barbour, who held a seat in the Virginia House of Burgesses, and Mary Pendleton Thomas, both of Orange County, Virginia. His family was one of the first to settle in Orange C...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=859378 ... Read more

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Fifteen previously unpublished boxing pieces written between 1952 and 1963.

Demonstrating A.J. Liebling’s abiding passion for the “sweet science” of boxing, A Neutral Corner brings together fifteen previously unpublished pieces written between 1952 and 1963. Antic, clear-eyed, and wildly entertaining, these essays showcase a The New Yorker journalist at the top of his form. Here one relives the high drama of the classic Patterson-Johansson championship bout of 1959, and Liebling’s early prescient portrayal of Cassius Clay’s style as a boxer and a poet is not to be missed.

Liebling always finds the human story that makes these essays appealing to aficionados of boxing and prose alike. Alive with a true fan’s reverence for the sport, yet balanced by a true skeptic’s disdain for sentiment, A Neutral Corner is an American treasure.
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And Here's The Rest
It's generally accepted that Liebling's The Sweet Science is the finest piece of Boxing literature ever concieved.The writing was lyrical in a way rarely seen in sports writing (or any other kind of writing for that matter), the world he described captivating.Just when we thought that that was all there was, lo and behold, here comes the second part of Lieblings oeuvre. And it's every bit as potent as the first part!

As with its predecessor, A Neutral Corner makes it's mark by intelligent and cultured writing that captures the atmosphere and culture of Boxing life in urban America in the mid-/late-'50s.If The Sweet Science focused on many characters, then A Neutral Corner chooses as its central hero Floyd Patterson - a fighter not normally held in high esteem in fight circles.Here we see his progression from champion to challenger to champion again and finally to his ultimate destruction.We are also treated to Liebling's by now well-established preference for the artistic rather than the brutal and this seems to be best expressed in his classic observations on a nascent Muhammad Ali ("The Poet").Reading his initial thoughts on this larger-than-life character compounds the tragedy that he didn't live to see and wax lyrical on the flowering of that talent.

A.J. Liebling was no crude sports hack.The man was a scholar and an individual as these pieces attest.His writing is a poetry in itself.

Classic Boxing Journalism!
This book is a collection of essays Liebling wrote for the New Yorker back in the 1950's and early 1960's. Liebling does a great job of capturing the atmosphere around the fights, training camps and boxing gyms. Liebling is a humorous writer who really captures the personalities of fighters, managers, trainers and the overall feel for the boxing game. He points out the eccentricities and oddities of many people he encounters in the sport and while he finds humor in their weirdness and quirks he does so in a funny but affectionate way. I've spent many years around the boxing gyms and for all the bad things that go on, there are also some of the most unique and great people you will ever meet involved in the sport too. There is a certain character that exists in boxing that doesn't exist in major team sports whose players tend to be overpaid, spoiled, pampered, and totally lacking in brains, heart, personality and character.

Essays included in A Neutral Corner are his portrayal of Stillmans Gym in 1950's New York City, along with the local club fight scene in NYC at that time, great stuff about Archie Moore, Floyd Patterson, Ingemar Johansson, Sonny Liston, a young Cassius Clay, Cus D'Amato, the atmosphere and stories around fight cards in England, Tunisia and other places. This is all great stuff that really captures the essence of boxing. Liebling really loved boxing and appreciated the people involved and was far superior than the wormy cynical morons (in all fairness there are a few good writers covering the sport today) that pass themselves off as boxing writers today. This is classic boxing journalism!

Boxing Essays from a Master
A.J. Leibling captures the smokey ambience of the ring and its world with a masterly hand. Joyce Carol Oates ("On Boxing") may be squeamish and over-dramatic, and Budd Schulberg self-promoting and exasperating, butMr. Leibling the has a touch born of a top flight journalist and ardentboxing fan who also has the benefit of minute observation, a genial senseof humor, a well seasoned knowledge of the world, and a strong classicaleducation.We enter the world protrayed in A Neutral Corner by way of thedingy confines of Stillman's gym in New York City, but on the way over areentertained by a short, amusing and thoroughly knowledgable meditation onthe Great Ancients of boxing: 18th/19th century Pierce Egan (whom Lieblingcalls the ring's "Thucydides") and Jewish greats Dan Mendoza andDutch Sam.Liebling muses on their significant contribution to the ringand that of the Jewish fighters in general and we finally fetch up atStillman's gym (an icon of New York Boxing) simultaneously with thereflection that there are few Jewish fighters these (1952) days. "With a good Jew fighter now" One of the managers declares,"you could make a fortune of money."There is the rise of Irishfighters and the economic circumstances that gave birth to both Jewish andIrish fighters, and the availability of day jobs that waylay their ringambition.Yet this is hardly a dry academic treatise, for it isentertwined and amplified by the thoughts and opinions of the trainers,managers and boxers at Stillman's.

Liebling is interested in everythingand everyone, and nothing escapes his pen as he immerses the reader inwhichever world he is illustrating with his mixture of scholarlyobservation and streetwise humor.At one point we arrive in Tunis, whereone escapes from the oppressive heat into a museum and suddenly comes uponan ancient mosaic of a boxing match.It depicts one fighter knocking downthe other."The fellow on the receiving end", Liebling muses,"has an experienced disillusioned look, like that of a boy who hasfought out of town before..." The Tunisian passion for prizefightinghas deep roots, and seems hardly about to diminish, with the buildup to alocal match nearly consuming the entire city.

Throughout these essaysthere is the sense of accompanying Liebling as he chats with the managers,watches the boxers train, pokes his head into training camps and interviewsfighters and has a drink at The Neutral Corner, a New York bar and grill,to hash it all out.We sit with him near ringside where his smooth prosein no way interferes with his immediate and lively portrayal of the fights.We become acquainted with Floyd Patterson, a sensitive and intelligentfighter forever in search of his soul, the professorial Archie Moore, avery young Cassius Clay and another side of the habitually taciturn SonnyListon.

Liebling's prose flows and some have remarked on itspyrotechnics, but is tight and descriptive, and his interestscomprehensive.Each essay (originally printed in The New Yorker) builds anabsorbing world of its own, though several are connected by common themes(for instance, Stillman's gym, Floyd Patterson's series of fights). This isa book for the die-hard boxing fan, for it there is little in it that doesnot pertain to boxing, its past and present.It can also be enjoyed by thegeneral reader and lover of good writing, for it is a collecton of essays,each one lively and gracefully written, about the people, first andforemost, who make up the old and sometimes dark world of prizefighting.

Hard-boiled boxing
Leibling's essays are filled with history, humanity and delightful idiosyncracies - all in a prose that recalls a bygone era.This book is not simply for fight fans, it's for anyone who loves to read.

AN OUTSTANDING COLLECTION OF ESSAYS
This book is a must for all boxing fans. It contains reviews of BOTH Patterson/Johansson and Patterson/Liston fights, plus Ali's first pro bout. Mr. Liebling was the consummate boxing writer. He gives some very interesting information on the fighters camps and personal lives that make for a great read. An essential addition to any library ... Read more

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