Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship by Dave Kindred
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
In this dual biography, the largeness and significance of The Greatest eclipses that of commentator and fan Cosell. Ali's rush to join the military to be stopped by entry written tests and then refusal to be inducted later becomes one of the many acts of an Ali as marionette to Nation of Islam's Elijah Muhammed. This includes voluntarily withdrawing from fighting for a year and expressing trepidation that the assassination that befell Malcom X could happen to Ali if he, too, crossed Elijah. Also interesting is the intersections with organized crime. Did the mafia fix the Muhammad Ali vs Sonny Liston 1965 fight?
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