Redemption Song - Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties (Repost)
Redemption Song - Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties By Mike Marqusee
2016 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 1844675270 | EPUB | 1 MB
2016 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 1844675270 | EPUB | 1 MB
Shortlisted for the 1999 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and voted one of twenty-five "Books to Remember 2000" by the New York Public Library Is there a more characteristic figure of the sixties than Muhammad Ali playful and political, popular and non-conformist, defiant and triumphant? In a unique new book, Mike Marqusee puts the great boxer back in his true historical context to explore a crucial moment at the cross-roads of popular culture and mass resistance. He traces Ali's interaction with the evolving black liberation and anti-war movements, including his brief but fascinating liaison with Malcolm X, as well as his encounters with Martin Luther King. Marqusee's elegant and forceful narrative explores the origins and impact of Ali's dramatic public stands on race and the draft, and reinterprets the "Rumble in the Jungle," shedding new light on its triumph and tragedy. Above all, he imbues Ali's story with a long-neglected international dimension,...