Prizefighter

The globetrotting champion of the oppressed who shook his fist at the world in an era of profound changePrizefighter is the extraordinary saga of James "e;Yankee"e; Sullivan, who, in the first half of the nineteenth century, traveled the globe as a refugee, convict, laborer, and pugilist-and helped bring our modern world into being. Sullivan was born as Francis Ambrose in Ireland in 1813, ventured...