The Fight (book) ego trips and the unattractive dimensions of his narcissism." Mitrosilis comments that "Mailer observes the power and frailty of his own persona just as he does with the fighters and their cornermen… hiding nothing." To him it appears like "a near impossible task to lie on the couch and sit in the chair, the psychologist and the patient." The Fight (book) The Fight is a 1975 non-fiction book by Norman Mailer about the boxing title fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman at Kinshasa in Zaire in 1974, known as the "Rumble in the Jungle". The author is both the
Laughing in the Jungle him “a deep and heavy sense of bewilderment.” He realized that “to know and understand” America he first had to learn the language. Adamic briefly attended an evening school, but soon realized “so far as my understanding of America was concerned, I was left almost entirely to myself.” He was a voracious reader and at the age of sixteen, he read Sinclair’s "Jungle" which profoundly influenced his thinking about America. “For a few days I felt a sharp hatred for the whole country.” "Laughing in the Jungle" describes Adamic’s visits to South Slav and Central European immigrant communities in Pennsylvania