Tutti gli incontri di boxe di Cassius Clay (Muhammad Alì) di Antonio Sacco ripercorre la carriera sportiva del celeberrimo pugile, dalle origini fino al ritiro e alla morte. L’autore analizza la sua figura a partire dalla giovinezza, attraverso la descrizione della sua famiglia, dell’importanza del ruolo rivestito dalla madre e delle motivazioni che lo hanno spinto a intraprendere un percorso che lo consacrerà come uno dei boxeur più famosi e talentuosi di sempre.Il volume rievoca c...

Before there was Muhammad Ali, there was Cassius Clay: young, brash, Black, beautiful. Cassius not only won each boxing match, he correctly predicted the round in which he would win! In this exciting new book, David W. Coleman captures Muhammad Ali as never before: focusing on Cassius Clay and on Clay's incredible career in the boxing ring. All of Clay's professional bouts are covered in detail, from fighting police chief Tunney Hunsaker to the heavyweight champion of the world, Sonny List...

Il libro “Quando il pugile colpisce con le parole: frasi celebri senza esclusione di colpi di Muhammad Ali” è ricco di citazioni di vario tipo e si presta ad essere considerato una collezione di valore, da oggi e per l'avvenire.

The emancipationist Cassius M. Clay has long been one of Kentucky's most controversial and misunderstood figures. This new biography examines his important, though undervalued, place in history from the anti-slavery movement to his role as Lincoln's minister to Russia during the Civil War. Along the way the many fights, romantic entanglements, and political battles of Clay's life are explored. The author, a former guide at Clay's mansion, White Hall, unearthed long-forgotten documents such...

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The nineteenth-century Kentucky antislavery reformer Cassius Marcellus Clay is generally remembered as a knife-wielding rabble-rouser who both inspired and enraged his contemporaries. Clay brawled with opponents while stumping for state constitutional changes to curtail the slave trade. He famously deployed cannons to protect the office of the antislavery newspaper he founded in Lexington. Despite attempts on his life, he helped found the national Republican party and positioned himself as...

Now an HBO film! Catch the premiere this fall.In 1966 Muhammad Ali announced his intention to refuse induction into the United States Army as a conscientious objector. This set off a five-year battle that would strip him of his world heavyweight title, bar him from boxing, and nearly send him to prison—all at the peak of his career as the greatest boxer in history. Ali defiantly proclaimed his refusal to go to war with the assertion that it violated his beliefs as a black Muslim. T...

The most colorful member of Kentucky's most illustrious family, Cassius Marcellus Clay is a legendary figure in the Bluegrass. This lively biography records both the traditions surrounding Clay and the historical facts of his life, which are themselves the stuff of legend. Although Clay was a dedicated emancipationist, his real interest lay in broad issues of human freedom. The story of Clay's True American, his service in the Mexican War, his accomplishments as Lincoln's minister...