Muhammad Ali (1) (1942–2016)
Auteur van The Greatest: My Own Story
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Over de Auteur
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, toon meer 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) toon minder
Fotografie: World Journal Tribune photo by Ira Rosenberg, 1967 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-115435)
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Algemene kennis
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Clay, Cassius Marcellus, Jr. (birth)
- Geboortedatum
- 1942-01-17
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2016-06-03
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- septic shock
- Woonplaatsen
- Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA
Scottsdale, Arizona, USA - Beroepen
- boxer
- Relaties
- Ali, Laila (daughter)
Ali, Hana (daughter)
Ali, Maryum Maymay (daughter) - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Presidential Citizens Medal (2001)
Olympic Medal (Gold|Boxing: Light Heavyweight|1960)
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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.… (meer)