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An insightful portrait of Muhammed Ali from the New York Times best-selling writer of At the Altar of Acceleration and The Big Bam. It centers around the ethnic and politics implications of Ali's refusal of service in the armed service - and the main element occasions in a life that was as high profile and transformative as any in the 20th hundred years. With the loss of life of Muhammad Ali in June 2016, the multimedia and America in general have appreciated a hero, a heavyweight champion, an Olympic silver medalist, an icon, and a guy who symbolizes the sheer greatness of America. New York Times best-selling author Leigh Montville will go deeper, with a fascinating chronicle of a story that has been largely untold. Muhammad Ali, in the past due 1960s, was young, successful, brash, and greatly adored - but with some reservations. He was bombastic and cocky in a manner that captured the imagination of America but also drew its detractors. He was a striking young African American in an time when few people were as outspoken. He renounced his name - Cassius Clay - to be his 'slave name' and joined up with the Nation of Islam, renaming himself Muhammad Ali. And finally, in 1966, after being drafted, he refused to join the army for spiritual and conscientious reasons, triggering a struggle that was bigger than some of his rounds in the wedding ring. What followed was a period of legal battles, of ethnic obsession, and in some ways of being the very embodiment of the civil protection under the law movement situated in the heart of 1 man. Muhammad Ali was the end of the arrow, and Leigh Montville brilliantly assembles all the boxing, the charisma, the ethnic and politics shifting tides, and eventually the enormous waft of entertainment that always surrounded Ali. Sting Like a Bee: Muhammed Ali vs. america of America, 1966-1971is an important and intensely engaging book.
