Cinderella Man

by Marc Cerasini

  Most invaluable to the creation of this text was the authorized biography Relief to Royalty: The Story of James J. Braddock, World’s Heavyweight Champion by Lud (real name Ludwig Shabazian), sports editor for the Hudson Dispatch of Union City, New Jersey. Published in 1936 with a foreword by Damon Runyon, the book is currently out of print.

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  The author would like to thank Cindy Chang at Universal and Josh Behar at HarperCollins for their support on this project. Most particularly, the author would like to thank Alice Alfonsi for her invaluable help in the research and in the preparation of this manuscript. Without her assistance, this novel would not exist.

  About the Author

  MARC CERASINI resides in Queens, New York, just a few blocks from the site of the old Madison Square Garden Bowl, where James J. Braddock won his world heavyweight title. Over his long writing career, Mr. Cerasini has ghostwritten for Tom Clancy and authored over thirty books of fiction and nonfiction for adults and children, including New York Times nonfiction bestseller O.J. Simpson: American Hero, American Tragedy; the original novel Wolverine: Weapon X for Marvel Press; and the USA Today bestseller AVP: Alien vs. Predator, based on the motion picture. He is the coauthor, under pennames with his wife, Alice Alfonsi, of the number-one and number-two Independent Mystery Booksellers Association bestsellers On What Grounds and Through the Grinder, as well as the IMBA bestseller The Ghost and Mrs. McClure. Under his own name, Marc Cerasini has also co-authored 24: The House Special Subcommittee Investigation of CTU, based on the Emmy Award-winning television show “24.”

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  Copyright

  This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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  EPub © Edition DECEMBER 2008 ISBN: 9780061976841

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