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Sucker Punch : The Hard Left Hook That Dazed Ali and Killed King's Dream by Jack Cashill (2006, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNelson Incorporated, Thomas
ISBN-10159555033X
ISBN-139781595550330
eBay Product ID (ePID)14038720339
Product Key Features
Book TitleSucker Punch : the Hard Left Hook That Dazed Ali and Killed King's Dream
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPolitical Ideologies / Radicalism, Boxing, General, American Government / General
Publication Year2006
GenreReligion, Political Science, Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorJack Cashill
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight17.3 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2005-036711
Dewey Edition22
Number of Volumes0 vols.
Dewey Decimal796.83092 B
Synopsis"Everything that he has done was against this country." Joe Frazier on Muhammad Ali Part man, part myth, and all American, Muhammad Ali is history's most beloved, most revered athlete. But though he was "The Greatest" inside the ring, outside he was a hulking mass of contradictions. This book is the first comprehensive, pull-no-punches account of America's least likely icon. Jack Cashill explores the changing mores and racial dynamics of the sixties alongside Ali's epic battles in the ring. "What Ali did, great or otherwise, was to channel the spirit of his age. . . . He captured the ethos of that decade all too well. It wasn't pretty. I was there, and I know what I saw." Cashill reveals how Elijah Muhammad seduced Ali-and how that seduction spelled the betrayal of Dr. King's dream, the death of Malcolm X, the humiliation of Joe Frazier, the rise of Don King, and the tragic undoing of Mike Tyson-and proves that: Ali was an unapologetic sexist and unabashed racist, calling for the lynching of interracial couples and an American apartheid as late as 1975. Ali routinely denigrated black heroes who did not share his point of view, including Joe Louis, Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall, and especially Joe Frazier. Ali shamelessly courted some of the most brutal dictators on the planet: Qadaffi, Idi Amin, Papa Doc Duvalier, Nkrumah, Mobutu, and Ferdinand Marcos. With unusual sympathy and unflinching insight, Cashill assesses Ali's boxing conquests and political influence. He shows how the very figure who could have brought America's diverse people together when it mattered, instead tore them apart. Jack Cashill has written and directed The Holocaust through Our Own Eyes , The Soul of the West and the Emmy-Award winning The Royal Years among other documentaries for regional PBS and national cable channels. Cashill has a Ph.D. in American studies from Purdue and has been published in the Wall Street Journal , Washington Post , Fortune , Weekly Standard , WorldNetDaily, and Ingram's , where he serves as executive editor. He is also the author of First Strike , Ron Brown's Body , and Hoodwinked: How Intellectual Hucksters Have Hijacked American Culture ., "Everything that he has done was against this country." Joe Frazier on Muhammad Ali Part man, part myth, and all American, Muhammad Ali is history's most beloved, most revered athlete. But though he was "The Greatest" inside the ring, outside he was a hulking mass of contradictions. This book is the first comprehensive, pull-no-punches account of America's least likely icon. Jack Cashill explores the changing mores and racial dynamics of the sixties alongside Ali's epic battles in the ring. "What Ali did, great or otherwise, was to channel the spirit of his age. . . . He captured the ethos of that decade all too well. It wasn't pretty. I was there, and I know what I saw." Cashill reveals how Elijah Muhammad seduced Ali--and how that seduction spelled the betrayal of Dr. King's dream, the death of Malcolm X, the humiliation of Joe Frazier, the rise of Don King, and the tragic undoing of Mike Tyson--and proves that: Ali was an unapologetic sexist and unabashed racist, calling for the lynching of interracial couples and an American apartheid as late as 1975. Ali routinely denigrated black heroes who did not share his point of view, including Joe Louis, Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall, and especially Joe Frazier. Ali shamelessly courted some of the most brutal dictators on the planet: Qadaffi, Idi Amin, Papa Doc Duvalier, Nkrumah, Mobutu, and Ferdinand Marcos. With unusual sympathy and unflinching insight, Cashill assesses Ali's boxing conquests and political influence. He shows how the very figure who could have brought America's diverse people together when it mattered, instead tore them apart. Jack Cashill has written and directed The Holocaust through Our Own Eyes , The Soul of the West and the Emmy-Award winning The Royal Years among other documentaries for regional PBS and national cable channels. Cashill has a Ph.D. in American studies from Purdue and has been published in the Wall Street Journal , Washington Post , Fortune , Weekly Standard , WorldNetDaily, and Ingram's , where he serves as executive editor. He is also the author of First Strike , Ron Brown's Body , and Hoodwinked: How Intellectual Hucksters Have Hijacked American Culture ., With this book, Jack Cashill reveals how Muhammad Ali's conversion to the Nation of Islam and black radicalism spelled the end of Malcolm X, betrayed MLK's dream, and served as a wedge that drove the white urban and working class out of the Democratic camp., "Everything that he has done was against this country."? "Joe Frazier on Muhammad Ali" ? Part man, part myth, and all American, Muhammad Ali is history's most beloved, most revered athlete. But though he was "The Greatest" inside the ring, outside he was a hulking mass of contradictions.' ? This book is the first comprehensive, pull-no-punches account of America's least likely icon. Jack Cashill explores the changing mores and racial dynamics of the sixties alongside Ali's epic battles in the ring. "What Ali did, great or otherwise, was to channel the spirit of his age. . . . He captured the ethos of that decade all too well. It wasn't pretty. I was there, and I know what I saw." ? Cashill'reveals how Elijah Muhammad seduced Ali--and how that seduction spelled the betrayal of Dr. King's dream, the death of Malcolm X, the humiliation of Joe Frazier, the rise of Don King, and the tragic undoing of Mike Tyson--and proves that: ? ? "Ali was an unapologetic sexist and unabashed racist, calling for the lynching of interracial couples and an American apartheid as late as 1975.'" "?" "Ali routinely denigrated black heroes who did not share his point of view, including Joe Louis, Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall, and especially Joe Frazier." "?" "Ali shamelessly courted some of the most brutal dictators on the planet: Qadaffi, Idi Amin, Papa Doc Duvalier, Nkrumah, Mobutu, and Ferdinand Marcos." ? With unusual sympathy and unflinching insight, Cashill assesses Ali's boxing conquests and political influence. He shows how the very figure who could have brought America's diverse people together when it mattered, instead tore them apart. ? JackCashill has written and directed "The Holocaust through Our Own Eyes," "The Soul of the West "and the Emmy-Award winning "The Royal Years" among other documentaries for regional PBS and national cable channels. Cashill has a Ph.D. in American studies from Purdue and has been published in the "Wall Street Journal," "Washington Post," "Fortune," "Weekly Standard," "WorldNetDaily," and "Ingram's," where he serves as executive editor. He is also the author of "First Strike," "Ron Brown's Body," and "Hoodwinked: How Intellectual Hucksters Have Hijacked American Culture,", Muhammad Ali is history's most beloved, most revered athlete. But though he was "The Greatest" inside the ring, outside he was a hulking mass of contradictions. This book is the first comprehensive, pull-no-punches account of America's least likely icon. Jack Cashill explores the changing mores and racial dynamics of the sixties alongside Ali's epic battles in the ring. He reveals how Elijah Muhammad seduced Ali and how that seduction spelled the betrayal of Dr. King's dream, the death of Malcolm X, the humiliation of Joe Frazier, the rise of Don King, and the tragic undoing of Mike Tyson. Whether dodging blows or dodging the draft, no athlete has ever influenced an entire culture as did Ali, and no book until now has ever captured his many contradictions and truly inspiring transformations with such clarity and candor. Book jacket.
LC Classification NumberGV1132.A44C25 2006
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