Muhammad Ali (1) (1942–2016)
Autor de The Greatest: My Own Story
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Sobre El Autor
Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. was born in Louisville, Kentucky on January 17, 1942. He started boxing at the age of 12. He won a gold medal at the 1960 Olympics in Rome and became a three-time world heavyweight boxing champion. He rejected racial integration at the height of the civil rights movement, mostrar más converted from Christianity to Islam, and changed his slave name Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali, which was given to him by the Lost-Found Nation of Islam. On April 28, 1967, Ali refused to be drafted and requested conscientious-objector status. He was immediately stripped of his title by boxing commissions around the country. He did not fight again until three and a half years later. During his exile from the ring, he starred in a short-lived Broadway musical Buck White. After retiring from boxing in 1981, Ali made speeches emphasizing spirituality, peace and tolerance, and undertook quasi-diplomatic missions to Africa and Iraq. His life was the subject of a feature film starring Will Smith. In 2005, Ali received the Medal of Freedom. He suffered from Parkinson's disease for more than 30 years. He died of septic shock on June 3, 2016 at the age of 74. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: World Journal Tribune photo by Ira Rosenberg, 1967 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-115435)
Obras de Muhammad Ali
Obras relacionadas
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight: Cassius Clay vs. the United States of America (1924) — Prólogo — 45 copias
In This Corner . . . !: Forty-two World Champions Tell Their Stories (1973) — Introducción — 24 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Clay, Cassius Marcellus, Jr. (birth)
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1942-01-17
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2016-06-03
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- septic shock
- Lugares de residencia
- Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA
Scottsdale, Arizona, USA - Ocupaciones
- boxer
- Relaciones
- Ali, Laila (daughter)
Ali, Hana (daughter)
Ali, Maryum Maymay (daughter) - Premios y honores
- Presidential Citizens Medal (2001)
Olympic Medal (Gold|Boxing: Light Heavyweight|1960)
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 9
- También por
- 18
- Miembros
- 499
- Popularidad
- #49,589
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 14
- ISBNs
- 48
- Idiomas
- 7
- Favorito
- 2
The author must have known that sport historians would keep track of his score and achievements. Thus, instead of a factual journalistic retell of his matches, the book takes you behind the scenes and in his head: The immense preparation that goes into a match; All the pressure and threats he was living through; His encounter with an emasculated victim of the KKK whose story gave him strength and motivation; His out-of-the-ring strategies to destabilize an opponent.
The chapter that describes the process of refusing the draft, narrated with precision and suspense, leaves you biting your nails.
The only weakness I found are a few chapters in the middle dedicated to people Ali wanted to commemorate. These slow the pace down. Fair enough though.
It helps to complement the reading with a documentary to get the chronology in order and put some faces on the people.
Finally, it’s not a weakness, but just to know what to expect: the book does not cover his post boxing life. I guess The Greatest wanted to leave some work for the biographers.… (más)