Raging Bull: My Story

Meet Jake La Motta: thief rapist killer. Raised in the Bronx slums he fought on the streets got sent to reform school and served time in prison. Trusting no one slugging everyone he beat his wife his best friends even the mobsters who kept the title just out of reach. But the same forces that made him a criminalfear rage jealousy self-hate guiltcombined with his drive and intelligence to make him a winner in the ring. At age twenty-seven after eight years of fighting he became Middleweight Champion of the World a hero to thousands. Then at the peak of success he fell apart and began a swift harrowing descent into nightmare. Raging Bull the Bronx Bulls brutally candid memoir tells it allfights jails sex moneysurpassing in hard-hitting prose even the movie that immortalized it.