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Redemption Song
Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties - 2nd Edition
- Author:
- By Mike Marqusee
- Awards:
- William Hill Sports Book Of The Year Award Short Listed 1999
- Format:
- Paperback (Paperback)
- Availability:
- In print, usually dispatched within 3-4 days.
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- Published: 31st May 2005
- ISBN: 1844675270
- Pages: 336
- Size: 191mm x 140mm
From the Publisher:
New Edition: A new afterword considers Ali and his legacy in light of the war on terror and new connotations of Islam and the West.
Is there a more characteristic figure of the sixties than Muhammad Ali - playful and political, popular and nonconformist, 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 crossroads 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, revealing why he was embraced with such warmth by diverse peoples across the globe. This timely antidote to the apolitical celebration of Ali as "a great American" revisits the man and the period with a fresh eye, casting new light on both his courage and his confusions.
From the Critics:
“Fascinating, well-written, entertaining and significant. Redemption Song provides rare and important insights into Muhammad Ali and his immense global impact on a turbulent and ground-breaking era”
Leon Gast, director of When We Were Kings
“Elegantly setting his subject in an international context, Mike Marqusee widens and enriches our appreciation of Ali, allowing us to see the great boxer in an entirely new light”
Manning Marable, Columbia University
“As Marqusee charts how Ali helped create a global consciousness, he succeeds in knocking Ali off the respectable pedestal on which American culture had placed him, resurrecting him as the radical figure he truly was - a vibrant historical essay”
Publishers Weekly
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