Bücher von Jack Dempsey

Charles Stuart Tripler built a sterling reputation in the antebellum US Army. Veteran of the Seminole and Mexican-American wars, chief medical officer on the typhoid-ravaged voyage commanded by U.S. Grant, Tripler studied and lectured on advances in military medicine and wrote a standard US Army guidebook. Appointed Medical Director of the Army of the Potomac after First Bull Run, Tripler confronted the daunting task of building a medical infrastructure for America's largest army. His leadership enabled the near-capture of the Confederate capital during the Peninsula Campaign. Instead of advancement, fame, and recognition, lobbying by the US Sanitary Commission torpedoed his promotion. He remained loyal, in uniform, launching a medical installation for veterans - regardless of race - that continues today as a university research and learning facility. Only a tragic death at age sixty put an end to his Army career. Recent scholarship has begun correcting the trope that the Civil War was a medical disaster rife with inexperienced surgeons hacking off limbs. Instead, many practitioners were unsung heroes in a conflict overwhelming in its scope and effect on health and welfare. Tripler is an exemplar, and this freshly researched volume illuminates how health issues can become embroiled in politics, as replicated during the Covid-19 pandemic.

In this book, Dempsey proves himself to be one of the most intelligent boxers the ring has seen. Displaying impeccable knowledge of physics and fight science, this book details how to throw pure punches, with body weight in motion behind each to ensure maximium damage. Beyond the ring, this book is written with fist fighting in mind! In these situations, being a "fancy Dan" is begging for a knockout. Each second you're fighting exposes you to more danger, and so ending the fight via power punching is the best exit. And boy does Jack Dempsey show you how to do it! A must for anyone who wants to learn how to punch in a fistfight, as well as a boxing ring. These methods were so admired by Bruce Lee that he incorporated them into his Jeet Kun Do system. The book further covers training, conditioning, sparring and thoughts on boxing from a master! A pleasure to read, and vicious in the ring!