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Author Reed, Ishmael, 1938- author.

Title The complete Muhammad Ali / Ishmael Reed
Published Montréal : Baraka Books, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (427 pages) : illustrations
Contents CHAPTER 21Mr. Dick; CHAPTER 22; CHAPTER 23; The Opening Ceremonies, November 2005; CHAPTER 24; December 2005, Las Vegas; CHAPTER 25; CHAPTER 26; June 16, 2004; CHAPTER 27; CHAPTER 28; CHAPTER 29; Aix-en-Provence; CHAPTER 30; Ali as a Black Nationalist; San Francisco, January 2004 Black Liberation Book Fair; CHAPTER 31; January 31, 2004; CHAPTER 32; October 2005, Chicago; CHAPTER 33; Why Ali remained with Elijah instead of following Malcolm; CHAPTER 34; CHAPTER 35; February 4, 2006, Oakland, California; CHAPTER 36; Like Zeus Descending from Mount Olympus; CHAPTER 37; CHAPTER 38
Tuesday, February 28, 2006, New YorkCHAPTER 39; Bigger Than Boxing; CHAPTER 40; Tribes Gallery, New York, April 2006; CHAPTER 41; June 2006, Louisville, Kentucky; CHAPTER 42; CHAPTER 43; CHAPTER 45; Bad Company; CHAPTER 46; Coxson, A Very Charming Rogue; CHAPTER 47; Ali and the largest embezzlement scheme in Wells Fargo history; CHAPTER 48; CHAPTER 49; "Lonnie is a stabilizing force."-Harry Belafonte; October 29, 2006; CHAPTER 50; Abdul Rahman; CHAPTER 51; CHAPTER 52; CHAPTER 53; How Will Ali Be Remembered? New York, January 8, 2005; CHAPTER 54; CONCLUSION; AFTERWORD; Boxers' Rights?
Summary Includes material and photographs not included in most of the 100 other books about the champion, Ishmael Reed's The Complete Muhammad Ali is more than just a biography-it is a fascinating portrait of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. An honest, balanced portrayal of Ali, the book includes voices that have been omitted from other books. It charts Ali's evolution from Black Nationalism to a universalism, but does not discount the Nation of Islam and Black Nationalism's important influence on his intellectual development. Filipino American author Emil Guillermo speaks about how "T ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Ali, Muhammad, 1942-2016
SUBJECT Ali, Muhammad, 1942-2016 fast
Subject Boxers (Sports) -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Sports.
GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
Boxers (Sports)
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781771860482
1771860480
9781771860475
1771860472