Veteran sportswriter Jack Cavanaugh's highly acclaimed story of the career and events of the life of Gene Tunney .

The book 's genesis was in the mid-1960's ,aboard a New Haven Railroad commuter train, when Jack Cavanaugh had a chance encounter with Tunney.

Some forty years later Cavanaugh has produced a beautifully written account of one of boxing's most accomplished practitioners in the ring and most greatly misunderstood out of it.

The story that was Gene Tunney's career had been written in a single act, one 18 second lapse of time that had frozen Tunney forever in the public consciousness, The Infamous Long Count.

Cavanugh frees Gene Tunney from that single punch that has until now suspended Tunney in Dempsey's shadow.

The book is published by Random House and is available through all major book retailers.

The book is published by Random House and is available through all major book retailers.