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The Lost Legacy of Muhammad Ali
The author of Muhammad His Life and Times argues that a recent corporate makeover of the champ's legacy has distorted the fighter's radical impact on sports, culture, and politics, and suggests that historians promote Ali's fight to promote justice and equality around the world.
- GenresSports
224 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 2005
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About the author
Thomas Hauser
136 books36 followersThomas Hauser (b. 1946) is the author of forty-two books on subjects ranging from professional boxing to Beethoven. His first work, Missing, was made into an Academy Award–winning film. Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times earned numerous awards for its author, including the prestigious William Hill Sports Book of the Year. In 2004, the Boxing Writers Association of America honored Hauser with the Nat Fleischer Award for Career Excellence in Boxing Journalism.
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April 6, 2013
In the words of the author, this 2005 book is "a companion volume" to his 1991 book entitled "The Life and Times of Muhammad Ali", which I have not read.
"Lost Legacy" is not a book in the usual sense - more a collection of elements. First, there is a summary of his major life events, inside and outside the boxing ring. Next is a series of essays from the author, identified by the year written. Then comes a compendium of quotes about Ali by journalists, boxers, and celebrities. In many cases, the quotes are followed by Ali's response when the quotes were repeated to him.
As I had hoped going in, the book was not concerned as much with his history in the boxing ring (though it was covered) as with his legacy as a man. It relates his conversion to Islam (first the controversial Nation of Islam, and later into a more orthodox Islam), his refusal to be drafted into the army during the Vietnam War, and his encounters (the good, the bad, and the ugly) with the media and the political world.
In the end: an excellent book about a man who has deservedly become a living legend of the 20th century.
"Lost Legacy" is not a book in the usual sense - more a collection of elements. First, there is a summary of his major life events, inside and outside the boxing ring. Next is a series of essays from the author, identified by the year written. Then comes a compendium of quotes about Ali by journalists, boxers, and celebrities. In many cases, the quotes are followed by Ali's response when the quotes were repeated to him.
As I had hoped going in, the book was not concerned as much with his history in the boxing ring (though it was covered) as with his legacy as a man. It relates his conversion to Islam (first the controversial Nation of Islam, and later into a more orthodox Islam), his refusal to be drafted into the army during the Vietnam War, and his encounters (the good, the bad, and the ugly) with the media and the political world.
In the end: an excellent book about a man who has deservedly become a living legend of the 20th century.
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