David Margolick Quotes

This story is surrounded by myths and cliches and I worked hard to get through and find out what was true.

- David Margolick

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This story is surrounded by myths and cliches and I worked hard to get through and find out what was true. - David Margolick

The fight had every element I cared about. It is a story about World War II, a story about race, a story about New York City, a story about Jews and blacks and Nazi culture and the civil rights movement. I was absolutely amazed no one had done a book on it. - David Margolick

The fight implicated both the future of race relations and the prestige of two powerful nations. ... 'Louis represents democracy in its purest form: the Negro boy who would be permitted to become a world champion without regard to race, creed or color,' a sportswriter from Boston had written that morning. 'Schmeling represents a country which does not recognize that idea or ideal.'? - David Margolick