The Great White Hope (film) over their marriage and Duryea's death by suicide in 1912. Set between 1910 and 1915, the story follows Jack Jefferson, patterned after real-life boxer, Jack Johnson, going on a hot streak of victories in the boxing ring as he defeats every white boxer around. Soon the press and racists announce the search for a "great white hope", a boxer who will defeat Jefferson for the heavyweight title. Meanwhile, Jefferson prepares for a few more matches, but he lets his guard down by courting the beautiful, and very white, Eleanor Bachman, and when everyone, including Jack's black "wife", discover this, the
Gateway to the Great Books Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Albert Einstein and John Dewey. The set included an index similar to the "Great Books"' "Syntopicon", along with reading plans of increasing difficulty. Hutchins contributed an introduction that was essentially a boiled-down version of the "Great Conversation", his preface to the "Great Books". The set contained biographical notes on the various authors, similar to those in the "Great Books". However, the set also contained editorial introductions to the selections, which were generally not included in the "Great Books". In another departure from the "Great Books" series, the set included black-and-white drawings of most of the authors by