LoginRedemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties
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A classic book that traces Muhammad Ali’s political development in the sixties
When Muhammad Ali died, many mourned the life of the greatest sportsman the world had ever seen. In Redemption Song, Mike Marqusee argues that Ali was not only a boxer but a remarkable political figure in a decade of tumultuous change. Playful, popular, always confrontational, Ali refashioned the role of a political activist and was central, alongside figures such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, to the black liberation and the anti-war movements. Marqusee shows that sport and politics were always intertwined, and this is the reason why Ali rem
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Manufacturer: Verso
Release date: 7 February 2017
ISBN-10 : 178663242X | ISBN-13: 9781786632425
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Release date: 7 February 2017
ISBN-10 : 178663242X | ISBN-13: 9781786632425
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