Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties

by Mike Marqusee (Author), Mike Marqusee (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1999

  $3.30

  This narrative explores the origins and impact of Muhammed Ali's dramatic public stands on race and the draft. It traces his interaction with the evolving black liberation and anti-war movements and encounters with leading figures. This book offers a historical essay that re-examines Muhammed Ali's role as a symbol of dessent and uses the man as a portal to an understanding of an era. The author explains how Ali's penchant for turning events upside down often made him a symbol of heroism abroad and of disrespect for the status quo at home.

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  Paperback
  2000

  $3.30

  Shortlisted for the 1999 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and voted one of the twenty-five Books to Remember 2000 by the New York Public Library. In this timely antidote to the apolitical celebration of Muhammad Ali as 'a great American', Mike Marqusee puts the boxer back in his true historical context to explore a crucial moment at the crossroads of popular culture and mass resistance. And, in a new afterword for this second edition, he reflects on Ali's legacy in the era of the 'war on terror'.