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Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight [Hardcover]

Howard Bingham (Author)
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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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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Ali book, June 5, 2001
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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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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Ali book, June 2, 2001
This review is from: Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (Hardcover)
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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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Packs a punch, May 27, 2001
This review is from: Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (Hardcover)
Great book. I recommend it pretty highly. I really admire Ali now.
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