Synopsis
About Jeff Leen
See more books from this AuthorWashington Post managing editor Leen (co-author: Kings of Cocaine: Inside the Medellin Cartel, 1989) illuminates the murky history of women’s professional wrestling with this sympathetic biography of Mildred Burke, the sport’s greatest champion.
| Read Full Review of The Queen of the Ring: Sex, M...She’s not a household name today, and never really was one, even in her heyday, but as Jeff Leen explains in “The Queen of the Ring,” Mildred Burke was the dominating figure in women’s wrestling for 20 years, “its Babe Ruth and its Jackie Robinson.” When she died in 1989 at 73, the Associated Pre...
Jul 27 2009 | Read Full Review of The Queen of the Ring: Sex, M...(Her unpublished autobiography, which Leen cites heavily, seems to be another outlier in the wrestling canon: a colorless pro-wrestling tell-all.) But "Queen" is less Burke's tale than it is the rich story of the golden age of women's ring rivalries, and Leen unearths truckloads of wonderful deta...
Aug 16 2009 | Read Full Review of The Queen of the Ring: Sex, M...At 5-foot-2, she was a powerhouse, a star making more money than Joe DiMaggio, drawing crowds wherever she performed.Time magazine crowned her "Queen of the Mat" in 1944, the same year she drew 12,000 to Mexico City's vast coliseum."Miss Burke, a slight but solid five-foot two-inch girl, who like...
| Read Full Review of The Queen of the Ring: Sex, M...What followed was a gritty, glittering testament to the golden age of wrestling, when beauty and brawn captivated the world.
Aug 02 2009 | Read Full Review of The Queen of the Ring: Sex, M...An aggregated and normalized score based on 11 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes