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by Douglas Century (Author)
Part of the Jewish Encounter series
Born Dov-Ber Rasofsky to Eastern European immigrant parents, Barney Ross grew up in a tough Chicago neighborhood and witnessed his father's murder, his mother's nervous breakdown, and the dispatching of his three younger siblings to an orphanage, all before he turned fourteen. To make enough money to reunite the family, Ross became a petty thief, a gambler, a messenger boy for Al Capone, and, eventually, an amateur boxer. Turning professional at nineteen, he would capture the lightweight, junior welterweight, and welterweight titles over the course of a ten-year career.
Author Biography
DOUGLAS CENTURY is the author, with Rick Cowan, of The New York Times best seller
and Edgar Award-winner Takedown: The Fall of the Last Mafi a Empire. Publications
he has written for include The New York Times, Details, Rolling Stone, and The Guardian.
He lives in New York City.
