About the Book: Baddest Man
On a defining evening of the 1980s, Donald Trump hosted celebrities and high
rollers in a Jersey Shore town to witness 21-year-old Mike Tyson knock out
Michael Spinks in just 91 seconds, earning more than the annual payrolls of the
Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics combined.
Only eight years earlier, Tyson, a troubled child from Brooklyn, was taken under
the wing of boxing legend Cus D?Amato in upstate New York. Their story of mutual
redemption captivated novelists, screenwriters, and the emerging cable TV
industry. Tyson became HBO?s leading man long before Tony Soprano.
Despite the immense success, Tysons story