Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight : Cassius Clay Vs the United States of America - Softcover
MUHAMMAD ALI'S GREATEST FIGHT: CASSIUS CLAY VS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Howard L. Bingham is one of North America's premier photojournalists, chronicling three decades of American events for Life magazine. Also the author of Muhammad Ali: A Thirty Year Journey, published by Robson Books, Bingham lives in Los Angeles. Max Wallace is a winner of the Rolling Stone Magazine Award for Investigative Journalism, and writes extensively about human rights in sports. He lives in Montreal.
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Here, Bingham (Muhammad Ali: A Thirty-Year Journey), Muhammad Ali's best friend and favorite photographer, contends that the former heavyweight champ's greatest legacy is that, owing to his conversion to the Nation of Islam and subsequent refusal to enter the military during the Vietnam War, Ali served as a touchstone for the racial and antiwar upheavals that rocked the Sixties and changed our country. Bingham offers a friendly portrayal of the conscientious objector/Black Muslim minister Ali but doesn't beyond a shadow of a doubt answer the question of whether his motives for evading the draft were self-serving, racial, or religious--though it is easy to imagine that at the least they might have evolved from the former to the latter. One cannot deny Ali's influence on his times, though. And neither can one deny that, whatever his motives for refusing military service, he paid a great price by being banned from boxing for three and a half years during his prime. While not "The Greatest," as its subject proclaimed himself, Bingham's book deserves a place in the sports collections of most public libraries. With a foreword by Ali himself, this book ably supplements the Hauser and Remnick biographies.
-Jim G. Burns, Ottumwa P.L., IA
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
-Jim G. Burns, Ottumwa P.L., IA
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherRobson Books
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1861056443
- ISBN 13 9781861056443
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages271
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 271 pages. In 1966 Muhammad Ali announced his intention to re fuse induction into the United States Army as a conscientious obj ector. This set off a five-year battle that would strip him of hi s world heavyweight title, bar him from boxing, and nearly send h im to prison - all at the peak of his career as the greatest boxe r in history. Ali defiantly proclaimed his refusal to go to war w ith the assertion that it violated his beliefs as a black Muslim. The subsequent legal battle proved to be a test tougher than fig hting Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier and George Foreman combined. The struggle that followed Ali's principled stand, one of the pivotal moments of the sixties, reverberated across lines demarcated by generation, class, race and religion. Set against the dramatic ba ckdrop of these turbulent times, the book's fascinating cast of c haracters includes such names as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr ., Jackie Robinson and J. Edgar Hoover. Framed with photos from A li's photographer and good friend Howard Bingham, Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight is the extraordinary story of the greatest challen ge to the greatest champion of the century. Seller Inventory # 2146aj
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