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Title: A boxer who others could learn from.
Review: A true sportsman and "semi-statesman", Max Schmeling was one of the greatest and classiest of all boxers who this world has known. Upon reading this translation, by Professor George B. von der Lippe of Saint Anselm College, one acquires some sense of what it must have been like to have lived under the fascist regime that was the Third Reich. Labeled by most as "Hitler's showhorse", we can see that this unfortunate term fails to describe most of Schmeling's life. He had conversations and meetings with various prominent and contemporary statesmen, eccumenical, and showbusiness people, to name a few. In light of the attention which some boxers have recieved concerning their mental decline (e.g. Parkinson's pugilistica), Max Schmeling is fortunate enough to have maintained his faculties and provided us with this look into his life.
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