
Baddest Man
The Making of Mike Tyson
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From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author whose coverage of Mike Tyson and his inner circle dates back to the 1980s, a magnificent noir epic about fame, race, greed, criminality, trauma, and the creation of the most feared and mesmerizing fighter in boxing history.
On an evening that defined the "greed is good" 1980s, Donald Trump hosted a raft of celebrities and high rollers in a carnival town on the Jersey Shore to bask in the glow created by a twenty-one-year-old heavyweight champion. Mike Tyson knocked out Michael Spinks that night and in ninety-one frenzied seconds earned more than the annual payrolls of the Los Angeles Lakers' and Boston Celtics' players combined.
It had been just eight years since Tyson, a feral child from a dystopian Brooklyn neighborhood, was delivered to boxing’s forgotten wizard, Cus D’Amato, who was living a self-imposed exile in upstate New York. Together, Cus and the Kid were an irresistible story of mutual redemption—darlings to the novelists, screenwriters, and newspapermen long charmed by D’Amato, and perfect for the nascent industry of cable television. Way before anyone heard of Tony Soprano, Mike Tyson was HBO’s leading man.
It was the greatest sales job in the sport’s history, and the most lucrative. But the business of Tyson concealed truths that were darker and more nuanced than the script would allow.
The intervening decades have seen Tyson villainized, lionized, and fetishized—but never, until now, fully humanized. Mark Kriegel, an acclaimed biographer regarded as “the finest boxing writer in America,” was a young cityside reporter at the New York Daily News when he was first swept up in the Tyson media hurricane, but here he measures his subject not by whom he knocked out but by what he survived. Though Tyson was billed as a modern-day Jack Dempsey, in truth he was closer to Sonny Liston: Tyson was Black, feared, and born to die young. What made Liston a pariah, though, would make Tyson—in a way his own handlers could never understand—a touchstone for a generation raised on a soundtrack of hip hop and gunfire.
What Peter Guralnick did for Elvis in Last Train to Memphis and James Kaplan for Sinatra in Frank, Kriegel does for Tyson. It’s not just the dizzying ascent that he captures but also Tyson’s place in the American psyche.
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Critic reviews
“Mark Kriegel has done it again. Baddest Man is the Mike Tyson book all of us (and not just boxing fans) have been waiting for, a biography as nimble and powerful as its subject. Unforgettable.”—Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of King: A Life and Ali: A Life
“This book, which is a masterpiece from an author who long ago entered the pantheon of the true greats, cements Mark Kriegel as the greatest chronicler of fighting and fighters, even ahead of such lions as W. C. Heinz and William Nack and Norman Mailer. This book is literature, a wonder of the English language sentence to sentence, bound up with such deep reporting that you'll feel at the end like you've crawled into Mike Tyson's skin, tunneled into his soul, until the iron myth slips away and a man in full, broken but also intact, claws off the page.”—Wright Thompson, New York Times bestselling author of The Barn, Pappyland, and The Cost of These Dreams
“Themes of race, power, and wealth are prevalent in Tyson’s life, especially when others, realizing his potential, began making decisions on his behalf. Love him or hate him, Tyson's story is interesting, and Kriegel highlights the man behind his public persona. An obvious choice for Tyson fans and readers interested in boxing, who will appreciate Kriegel's focus on the sport’s history and the fighters who influenced it.”—Booklist
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Summer of Our Discontent
- The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse
- By: Thomas Chatterton Williams
- Narrated by: Thomas Chatterton Williams
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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An incisive, culturally observant analysis of the evolving mores, manners and taboos of social justice (“anti-racist”) orthodoxy, which has profoundly influenced how we think about diversity and freedom of expression, often with complex or paradoxical consequences.
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The Gunfighters
- How Texas Made the West Wild
- By: Bryan Burrough
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The “Wild West” gunfighter is such a stock figure in our popular culture that some dismiss it all as a corny myth, more a product of dime novels and B movies than a genuinely important American history. In fact, as Bryan Burrough shows us in his dazzling and fast-paced new book, there’s much more below the surface. For three decades at the end of the 1800s, a big swath of the American West was a crucible of change, with the highest murder rate per capita in American history. The reasons behind this boil down to one word: Texas.
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Hits the target
- By S. S. Felzenberg on 06-09-25
By: Bryan Burrough
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Charlottesville
- An American Story
- By: Deborah Baker
- Narrated by: Deborah Baker
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
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In August 2017, over a thousand neo-Nazis, fascists, Klan members, and neo-Confederates descended on a small southern city to protest the pending removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee. Within an hour of their arrival, the city’s historic downtown was a scene of bedlam as armored far-right cadres battled activists in the streets. Before the weekend was over, a neo-Nazi had driven a car into a throng of counterprotesters, killing a young woman and injuring dozens.
By: Deborah Baker
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Mike Mentzer
- American Odysseus
- By: John Little
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Mike Mentzer was a strikingly handsome man with a brilliant mind and a "perfect" physique—the first bodybuilder to receive a perfect score in both amateur and professional competitions. In the late '70s, Mentzer rose to the very top of his sport (despite the efforts made by industry power brokers, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger), was featured in GQ magazine, and profiled on national television. But he was also a man who wrestled with mental illness his entire life and ended up living on the streets and being sent to prison.
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Amazing story of Mike Mentzer
- By Justin Ward on 06-12-25
By: John Little
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Turf Wars
- The Fight for the Soul of America's Game
- By: DeMaurice Smith
- Narrated by: DeMaurice Smith
- Length: 11 hrs
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During his fourteen years as the head of the NFL Players Association, DeMaurice Smith was a front line advocate for football players through some of the most tumultuous crises in NFL history: Colin Kaepernick’s protests, Deflategate, a lockout, two collective bargaining agreements, and more. But after witnessing the league’s troubling response to discrimination and racial unrest, both within the league and beyond, Smith realized it was time to pull back the curtain and speak truth to power.
By: DeMaurice Smith
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Anonymous Male
- A Life Among Spies
- By: Christopher Whitcomb
- Narrated by: Christopher Whitcomb
- Length: 11 hrs
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In September 2001, Christopher Whitcomb was the most visible FBI agent in the world. His bestselling memoir, Cold Zero, had led to novels, articles in GQ, and op-eds in The New York Times. He appeared on Imus in the Morning, Larry King, and Meet the Press; he was nominated for a Peabody reporting for CNBC. He played poker with Brad Pitt while contracting for the CIA.
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The Fight
- By: Norman Mailer
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
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In 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaïre, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fight each other. One was Muhammad Ali, the aging but irrepressible "professor of boxing." The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was voluble. Observing them was Norman Mailer, a commentator of unparalleled energy, acumen, and audacity.
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I enjoyed the heck out of this audiobook
- By tinyclanger on 04-13-20
By: Norman Mailer
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The Good Son
- The Life of Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini
- By: Mark Kriegel
- Narrated by: Holt McCallany
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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In the early 1980s, Ray Mancini was more than the lightweight champ. He was a national hero. Sinatra fawned over him. Warren Zevon wrote a tribute song. Sylvester Stallone produced his life story as a movie of the week. After all, an adoring public considered Boom Boom the real Rocky. But it all came apart in a brutal 1982 battle against an obscure Korean challenger....
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Best biography I have ever heard or read!
- By Mark on 08-26-16
By: Mark Kriegel
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Ant
- The Incredible Journey of NBA Rising Star Anthony Edwards
- By: Chris Hine
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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From his jaw-dropping dunks to his charismatic personality, Anthony Edwards draws comparisons to the greatest shooting guards of all time like Kobe and Jordan. A portrait in the education of a budding NBA superstar, Ant chronicles Edward’s meteoric rise. The number-one pick in the 2020 NBA Draft, a two-time All-Star, Edwards has, in just a few seasons, become a household name and the face of the Minnesota Timberwolves. And he’s only twenty-three years old.
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Not very good
- By Amazon Customer on 06-09-25
By: Chris Hine
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What Is Wrong with Men
- Patriarchy, the Crisis of Masculinity, and How (Of Course) Michael Douglas Films Explain Everything
- By: Jessa Crispin
- Narrated by: Jessa Crispin
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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How to be a Man? That question—and all the anxiety, anger, and resentment it stirs up—is the starting point for a crisis in masculinity that today manifests as misogyny, nativism, and corporate greed; gives rise to incels and mass shooters; and leads to panic over the rights of women and minorities. According to Jessa Crispin, it is the most important question of our time, and the answer to it might be found in an unlikely place: the films of Michael Douglas.
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Amazing insights
- By Anonymous User on 06-16-25
By: Jessa Crispin
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Say Hello to the Bad Guys
- How Professional Wrestling's New World Order Changed America
- By: Marc Raimondi
- Narrated by: Marc Raimondi
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
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In 1996, professional wrestling was one of the most watched sports on cable television, with more than 5 million people tuning in every week. And in the late 1990s, pro-wrestling was the hottest thing in American pop culture, with companies making millions in action figures, video games, and simple black t-shirts emblazoned with three little letters: NWO. The NWO, or New World Order, became a business like no other, and was responsible for the explosive ratings and rabid fanbase.
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NWO is 4 LIFE
- By mario on 06-25-25
By: Marc Raimondi
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Petty vs. Pearson
- The Rivalry That Shaped NASCAR
- By: Mike Hembree, Terry Labonte - foreword
- Narrated by: Alan Carlson
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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The battle for NASCAR dominance was never more pronounced than when Richard Petty and David Pearson met on the track. In 551 head-to-head races between 1960 and 1986, they finished one-two an astounding 63 times (Pearson won 33, Petty 30). Each showdown attracted more media attention and new fans, helping the sport to evolve evermore rapidly.
By: Mike Hembree, and others
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Make Me Commissioner
- I Know What's Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It
- By: Jane Leavy
- Narrated by: Abby Craden, Jane Leavy
- Length: 12 hrs
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Lifelong baseball devotee, legendary sportswriter, and New York Times bestselling biographer Jane Leavy takes listeners on an epic journey through the game that baseball has become—our once “national pastime,” now striving to catch up with the times—and proposes ideas that will invigorate fans and enhance the game’s cultural impact: a comic, deeply reported, historic, and heartfelt manifesto.
By: Jane Leavy
Great look inside the psychological piece of the a tortured soul
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She was who I thought she was
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Tyson…..badassss
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