| Book Review | The Michigan Historical Review, 33.2

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Lewis A. Erenberg. The Greatest Fight of Our Generation: Louis vs. Schmeling. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 288. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Paper, $15.95.

After the Brown Bomber's crushing victory over the Black Uhlan of the Rhine in their notorious two-minute, four-second 1938 bout for the title "Heavy Weight Champion of the World," the African American leader Marcus Garvey reported that Joe Louis carried the future of his race "upon his shoulders." Although Schmeling's ignominious defeat garnered no such pronouncements, as the exemplar of Nazi power and physical potency, he had entered the ring with a weight equally as daunting: Adolph Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy and the fate of wounded yet rebounding German pride and manhood. In The Greatest Fight of Our Generation: Louis vs. Schmeling, Lewis A. Erenberg paints a vivid and compelling portrait of the matches, professional careers, and intertwining lives of these two seemingly disparate, yet surprisingly similar world-class pugilists and situates both men upon the larger-than-life stage of international politics.

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