The restaurants of the Latin Quarter and the city rooms of midtown Manhattan; the beachhead of Normandy and the boxing gyms of Times Square; the trackside haunts of bookmakers and the shadowy redoubts of Southern politicians--these are the places that...

A.J. Liebling"s classic New Yorker pieces on the ""sweet science of bruising"" bring vividly to life the boxing world as it once was. It depicts the great events of boxing"'s American heyday: Sugar Ray Robinson"'s dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano"'s...