Unbeaten

Unbeaten is one of the best sports books I’ve read in years. It’s an irresistible story told with beautiful writing and a keen eye for detail. Like Rocky Marciano, this book hits hard and won’t be easily put downJonathan Eig, author of Ali: A Life

In Unbeaten, Mike Stanton aims to bring the legend to life for a new generation. He delivers a meticulously researched and eminently readable account of the only heavyweight champion who exited a savage sport with a perfect professional record ? 49-0 with 43 knockouts, 26 of them in the first three rounds. . . . [He] does a deft and detailed job of recreating Marciano’s journey through a violent and venal profession, with a direct style that pulls no punches.The Boston Globe

It’s an amazing story, and it was an amazing era, and it’s all captured brilliantly...Stanton is so good at describing the shadowy boxing world of Providence in the late 1940s and early ’50s you can almost smell the cigar smoke. For Unbeaten is far more than just a sports book, or even a biography of an iconic American sports figure. It’s a book about a certain time and place, an extremely well done book about a slice of American life that too rarely gets written about.Providence Journal

This meticulously documented and well-written work should stand for both fans and scholars as Marciano's definitive biography.Library Journal (starred review)