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Sucker Punch: The Hard Left Hook that Dazed Ali and Killed King's Dream
And so begins Jack Cashill’s stunningly frank look at the man behind the Ali myth. Writing from a fresh, firsthand perspective, Cashill explores the powerful influence boxing had on the culture of the sixties and the influence that culture had on a much too vulnerable Ali.
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.
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What people are saying about Sucker Punch:
"What a great book! You've grabbed the feel of the times, as I can identify with your listening to Ali's fights in those early years in much the same way. While a student at Western Kentucky University in 1967 my roomates and I would tune in to the fights on the radio and carry on about what a great fighter Clay was. I also was a fan for a long time . . . I fnd paralells in your writing and my thinking and I remarked in an email to another writer recently that it seems easy to fool the American public with the mainstream media on your side. If not easy it sure seems to be done frequently enough. . . " - Steve Tweddell
Dear Dr. Cashill,
You don't know me, but this is a fan letter. I don't know how I missed "Sucker Punch: The Hard Left Hook that Dazed Ali and Killed King's Dream" when it was published a few years ago. But I was lucky enough to recently discover it and just want to let you know that it is the most insightful book about Clay/Ali and the era he fought in (which I also lived through) that I have ever read.I read it in only two days, which is unlike me, but I was riveted. As somewhat of a boxing historian and recent author myself who has closely followed Clay/Ali in and out of the ring since I first saw him win the Western Golden Gloves finals in March 1960, I have finally found the book that expresses so many of my thoughts and beliefs about the era and the former heavyweight champ. Thank you for writing this gem. Your dedication to Louis and Frazier was just so right.
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