Hackman essay appears in AETHLON
October 03, 2011
Timothy Hackman (MA 2006) published "A Blues Song for Fighters: The Legend of Sonny Liston," in Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature 27:2 (Spring/Summer 2010), 1-22.
The article is based on his thesis of the same title, directed by Barry Lee Pearson with Jonathan Auerbach as the second reader.
It examines reflections of heavyweight boxing champion Charles "Sonny" Liston in biography, literature, and song to consider him as an unlikely folk hero. It is available online via UM's Digital Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/1903/11856.
Congratulations, Timothy!