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Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight [Hardcover]

Howard Bingham (Author)

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Publication Date: February 15, 2000

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight is a behind-the-scenes account of this battle as told by a genuine insider--Ali's closest friend, photographer Howard Bingham.

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Here, Bingham (Muhammad Ali: A Thirty-Year Journey), Muhammad Ali's best friend and favorite photographer, contends that the former heavyweight champ's greatest legacy is that, owing to his conversion to the Nation of Islam and subsequent refusal to enter the military during the Vietnam War, Ali served as a touchstone for the racial and antiwar upheavals that rocked the Sixties and changed our country. Bingham offers a friendly portrayal of the conscientious objector/Black Muslim minister Ali but doesn't beyond a shadow of a doubt answer the question of whether his motives for evading the draft were self-serving, racial, or religious--though it is easy to imagine that at the least they might have evolved from the former to the latter. One cannot deny Ali's influence on his times, though. And neither can one deny that, whatever his motives for refusing military service, he paid a great price by being banned from boxing for three and a half years during his prime. While not "The Greatest," as its subject proclaimed himself, Bingham's book deserves a place in the sports collections of most public libraries. With a foreword by Ali himself, this book ably supplements the Hauser and Remnick biographies.
-Jim G. Burns, Ottumwa P.L., IA
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: M.Evans & Company (February 15, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0871319004
ISBN-13: 978-0871319005
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds

Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,988,149 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Best Ali book, June 5, 2001

Luke Moses (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (Hardcover)

I ordered this book after Rich Hoffman of the Philadelphia Daily News called it one of the two best books ever written about Muhammad Ali (along with the Tomas Hauser oral history published ten years ago).

He was right. This is the best book I've ever written about The Greatest. It has all kinds of inside information and stuff about the political Ali. Really makes you appreciate what he did for his country by speaking out and almost going to jail.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Best Ali book, June 2, 2001

Garrett Harlan (Anchorage) - See all my reviews

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Other than a couple of minor factual errors (Sonny Liston bowed out of their second fight in the 7th round, not the 8th), this is a great book, filled with the best information and inside accounts I've ever seen about Ali and I've read just about all of them.

It even blows away a few myths that I've always believed because they are repated by one writer after another.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Packs a punch, May 27, 2001

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Great book. I recommend it pretty highly. I really admire Ali now.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting
Just finished this book and I learned a whole lot I didn't know about Ali. I just saw a documentary on PBS that covered some of this territory but the book is chock filled with... Read more

Published on June 7, 2002 by James True

2.0 out of 5 stars Not Worth The Money
I thought this book would be interesting but, really, was just utter disappointing. There were several factual errors, especially the one about the Ali-Liston bout. Read more

Published on February 28, 2002 by Patrick Lopez

5.0 out of 5 stars Book better than film
Just saw the Will Smith movie Ali. Save your seven bucks and read this book. It's much more interesting and doesn't bore you with Ali's private life. Read more

Published on January 12, 2002 by Ken Laresen

5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating
Lots I didn't know about Ali and I thought I knew just about all that's out there.

Fascinating description of a time and a personality that most of us have forgotten about or... Read more

Published on May 14, 2001 by Kenny Gregorsen

5.0 out of 5 stars Changed my mind
I have to confess that at the time Ali took his stand against the Vietnam War, I didn't agree with him. I even thought he was being disloyal to his country. Read more

Published on May 7, 2001 by Scott Klossen

5.0 out of 5 stars A knockout of a book
By far the most interesting book about Ali to date. Remnick's bio was better at capturing Ali's early personality but this has incredible stuff about the non-boxing Ali, the Ali... Read more

Published on March 21, 2001 by carl hollings

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, a true portrait
Wow, finally a book that gives more than the usual boxing cliches about Ali. This book tells about the other side of Ali, the crusader for justice who took an incredibly... Read more

Published on March 13, 2001 by peter krauss

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor Effort
I have followed the champ's career for almost forty years. This is clearly the worst book ever written about him. And it is very poorly written. Read more

Published on January 6, 2001

2.0 out of 5 stars Should concentrate more on Ali
As an longtime follower of Ali, I can honestly say that this book doesn't do him justice. I have met the champ several times and he has a completely different opinion than was... Read more

Published on July 21, 2000 by jason Mills

5.0 out of 5 stars VERY UPLIFTING
It's SO Rare Today To See an Athlete or Entertainer Willingly give up what they have for what they believe is Right. Read more

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