useful with their Hands: Boxers, Bl...

useful with their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen and Other Characters from the Rust Belt. Carlo Rotella. Berkeley: U of California P 2002 293 pp $2995

"Good With Their Hands: Boxer Bluesmen and Other Characters from the Rust Belt [is] a work of serious academic cultural analysis whose each beautifully crafted sentence carries the imprint of [Rotella's] Sicilian paternal grandmother's sewing thimble and the melodious ring of his Catalan maternal grandfather's violin. Rotella is a storyteller of surpassing talent, and the guide ...