The Great White Hope - Paperback

by Howard Sackler (Author)

Tragic Drama / Characters: 8 male 3 female extras w/doubling

Winner of Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award!

"A great part a tragic hero cheated degraded and at last brutally beaten. Mr. Sackler has used his hero a figure based on the first Black heavyweight champion of the world Jack Johnson (played by James Earl Jones) as a symbol in part of Black aspiration...Has an epic scope and range...It picks up the Johnson story soon after the Australian day in 1908 when Johnson whipped Tommy B