Comments in Shadow Box
Mailer's comments, quoted at length in George Plimpton's boxing book Shadow Box; both Mailer and Plimpton had covered the 1974 Ali-Foreman fight in Zaire.
Mailer’s comments, quoted at length throughout George Plimpton‘s boxing book Shadow Box (Putnam’s, 1977). Both men had covered the 1974 Muhammad Ali–George Foreman fight in Zaire — the subject of Mailer’s The Fight (75.12). The relevant passage was reprinted as “Hunter Thompson and Norman Mailer” in The Best of Plimpton (1980).
Related pages
- George Plimpton | The Fight (75.12) | 1977
- The Fight (75.12) | Norman Mailer: I'm Like a Minor Champ (75.13) | George, Being George (08.3)