MUHAMMAD ALI'S GREATEST FIGHT - Softcover

Howard L. Bingham; Max Wallace

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861056443 ISBN 13: 9781861056443

Publisher: Robson Books Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

In 1966 Muhammad Ali announced his intention to refuse induction into the United States Army as a conscientious objector. This set off a five-year battle that would strip him of his world heavyweight title, bar him from boxing, and nearly send him to prison - all at the peak of his career as the greatest boxer in history. Ali defiantly proclaimed his refusal to go to war with the assertion that it violated his beliefs as a black Muslim. The subsequent legal battle proved to be a test tougher than fighting 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 backdrop of these turbulent times, the book's fascinating cast of characters includes such names as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Jackie Robinson and J. Edgar Hoover. Framed with photos from Ali's photographer and good friend Howard Bingham, Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight is the extraordinary story of the greatest challenge to the greatest champion of the century.

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About the Author

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Robson Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1861056443
• ISBN 13: 9781861056443
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 271