Raging Bull: My Story is a 1970 memoir by
middleweight boxer
Jake LaMotta. In 1980 the book was adapted to
film by
Martin Scorsese.
The book is an autobiography about Jake LaMotta's life as a young teenage criminal, his reformation in prison, his boxing years and his struggle with the mafia who kept the title out of reach, and his jealous obsession with his wife Vickie. The book details his life very thoroughly from childhood till the end of his fame.
First edition
- Raging Bull: My Story, by Jake La Motta with Joseph Carter and Peter Savage. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1970]. ISBN 0-13-752527-3make you move