References in Popular Culture
A play about Mendoza, “The Punishing Blow,” by Randy Cohen, debuted in 2009.
A Conspiracy of Paper, a novel by David Liss, includes a fictional character inspired by Mendoza (author's note).
Mendoza features as a character in Rodney Stone, a Gothic mystery and boxing novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Mendoza is a minor character in T. Coraghessan Boyle's 1982 novel, "Water Music".
The boxer appears in Will Eisner's 2003 graphic novel, "Fagin the Jew".
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“Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.”
—Anonymous. Popular saying.
Dating from World War I—when it was used by U.S. soldiers—or before, the saying was associated with nightclub hostess Texas Quinan in the 1920s. It was the title of a song recorded by Sophie Tucker in 1927, and of a Cole Porter musical in 1929.
“Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale, and succor him against himself. Culture redresses this imbalance, puts him among equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy, and warns him of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)