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Overview

The Queen of the Ring is the little-known story of Mildred Burke, the longest reigning champion of female wrestling, In his researched account, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jeff Leen pulls back the curtain on a forgotten era of American history - a time when a petite Midwesterner used her beauty and brawn to captivate audiences across the globe and dominate America's most masculine sport.

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…the literature of the grappling arts can be split into two weight divisions: heavy treatises analyzing the methodology of the half Nelson versus cotton-candy reminiscences of Spandexed superstars. Jeff Leen's fine new biography of the pioneering lady wrestler Mildred Burke, The Queen of the Ring, might be in a class by itself. It's a serious history of one of this country's goofiest pastimes…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 details along the way
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In this intriguing biography, Leen (Kings of Cocaine) chronicles the life of “the queen of the mat,” Mildred Burke, women's wrestling champion and pioneer of the sport. Burke (1915–1989), along with her husband and manager, Billy Wolfe, are credited with having invented professional women's wrestling and bringing it to prominence: “Her muscles and his mind had made the industry of women's professional wrestling in America.” Their rise, fall and resurrection is a story as bizarre and titillating as wrestling's own carnival roots. The king and queen of “lady rassling” broke barriers despite a ban on women's wrestling in many states. Leen, managing editor for the Washington Post's investigations unit, deftly guides the reader through well-documented and researched accounts, which are culled from Burke's unpublished autobiography, interviews and numerous newspaper records. Leen writes: “Her speed and skill made her wrestling a thing of beauty in the ring, full of careful shifts of balance and swift and surprising combinations that turned the straining of muscle and limb into a ballet of grace and power.” Flavored with authentic speech and dedicated to accuracy, this biography is the tale of an underdog who triumphed. B&w photos. (Aug.)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780802118820
  • Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • Publication date: 8/5/2009
  • Pages: 272
  • Product dimensions: 6.34 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.22 (d)

Meet the Author

Jeffrey Leen is the assistant managing editor for the Washington Post’s investigations unit, where his work has helped win six Pulitzer Prizes. Also the author of KINGS OF COCAINE, the first book-length investigation of Columbia’s Medellin cartel, he lives in Maryland.

Table of Contents

1 The Match of the Century 1

2 Millie Bliss 9

3 Billy Wolfe 22

4 Wrestling Men 32

5 Becoming Champion 50

6 Building the Business 68

7 "Pulchritude on Parade" 86

8 Mat Mamas Maul for Millions 97

9 Billy Wolfe's Harem 114

10 "The Public Likes the Puss" 127

11 The Golden Age 140

12 Tragedy 162

13 A Bout with Nell 174

14 A Bout with Billy 191

15 A Bout with June 215

16 Millie without Billy 241

17 Billy without Millie 253

18 Mildred Burke Productions 265

Afterword Millie's Girls 281

List of Billy's Girls 289

List of Millie's Girls 290

Notes 299

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  • Posted January 14, 2011

    Girl Power

    A well written book about one of our country's little known female athletes. Mildred Burke was a pioneer of ot only women's wrestling but also women's sports as well. Hers was a hard scrabble life in a patriarchal world but she never waivered in her belief that she was the best female wrestler around.

    This is a must read for all those girls who want to play with the boys.

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