The year was 1938. Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party had just annexed Austria. Humanity held its breath as the world teetered ...

Joe Louis was the 10-to-1 favorite over the German ... Louis's Overconfidence Louis, meanwhile, went to Hollywood to play a boxer in a movie, Spirit of Youth. Still a newlywed, he spent time ...

"What my father did was enable white America to think of him as an American, not as a black," said his son, Joe Louis Jr. "By winning, he became white America's first black hero." Louis was ...