Recommended reading - Raging Bull: My Story

 

Raging Bull: My Story

by Jake LaMotta, Peter Savage and Joseph Carter.
Introduction by Nick Tosches.
 
Filmed as Raging Bull (1980), directed by Martin Scorsese.
 
First published 1970.
Published by Da Capo Press.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0306808080
ISBN-13: 978-0306808081
 
Description:
 

Meet Jake LaMotta: thief, rapist, killer. Raised in the Bronx slums, he fought on the streets, got sent to reform school, and served time in prison. Trusting no one, slugging everyone, he beat his wife, his best friends, even the mobsters who kept the title just out of reach. But the same forces that made him a criminal – fear, rage, jealousy, self-hate, guilt – combined with his drive and intelligence to make him a winner in the ring. At age twenty-seven, after eight years of fighting, he became Middleweight Champion of the World, a hero to thousands. Then, at the peak of success, he fell apart and began a swift, harrowing descent into nightmare. Raging Bull, the Bronx Bull's brutally candid memoir, tells it all – fights, jails, sex, money – surpassing, in hard-hitting prose, even the movie that immortalized it.