Baddest Man: The Making of Mike Tyson
Mark Kriegel
Penguin Press
Way before anyone heard of Tony Soprano, Mike Tyson was HBO’s leading man. It was the greatest sales job in the sport’s history, and the most lucrative. But the business of Tyson concealed truths that were darker and more nuanced than the script would allow. The intervening decades have seen Tyson villainized, lionized, and fetishized—but never, until now, fully humanized.