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Figure 1 ‘Boxing is only possible if there is an endless supply of young men hungry to leave their ghett« reighborhoods, more than willing to substitute the putative dangers of the ring for the more -vident dangers of the street; yet it is rarely advanced as a means of eradicating boxing, that overty itself be abolished; that it is the social conditions feeding boxing that are obscene.” — oyce Carol Oates Many of the titles here were first generated as a result of a request by L.D. Burnett at the U.S. Intellectual History Blog to “crowdsource a reading list for ‘Boxing in U.S. Cultural and Intellectual History.” I have not included all the titles posted by the contributors, and I’ve no added a substantial number of my own. All the same, this compilation would not have occurt without that blog post (indeed, the first draft was the principal product of the aforementionec individuals, especially Andrew McGregor). I have also included several titles outside the orbi of “U.S. Cultural and Intellectual History,” as well as a few works of fiction.