{"product_id":"9781418551728","title":"Sucker Punch: The Hard Left Hook That Dazed Ali and Killed King's Dream","description":"52180 - \u003cp\u003e\"Everything that he has done \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ewas against this country.\" \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJoe Frazier on Muhammad Ali\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart man, part myth, and all American, Muhammad Ali is history's most beloved, most revered athlete. But though he was \"The Greatest\" inside the ring, outside he was a hulking mass of contradictions.  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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. \"What Ali did, great or otherwise, was to channel the spirit of his age. . . . He captured the ethos of that decade all too well. It wasn't pretty. I was there, and I know what I saw.\" \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCashill 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--and proves that: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAli was an unapologetic sexist and unabashed racist, calling for the lynching of interracial couples and an American apartheid as late as 1975.  \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAli routinely denigrated black heroes who did not share his point of view, including Joe Louis, Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall, and especially Joe Frazier.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAli shamelessly courted some of the most brutal dictators on the planet: Qadaffi, Idi Amin, Papa Doc Duvalier, Nkrumah, Mobutu, and Ferdinand Marcos.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith unusual sympathy and unflinching insight, Cashill assesses Ali's boxing conquests and political influence. He shows how the very figure who could have brought America's diverse people together when it mattered, instead tore them apart.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJack Cashill\u003c\/strong\u003e has written and directed \u003cem\u003eThe Holocaust through Our Own Eyes\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Soul of the West \u003c\/em\u003eand the Emmy-Award winning \u003cem\u003eThe Royal Years\u003c\/em\u003e among other documentaries for regional PBS and national cable channels. Cashill has a Ph.D. in American studies from Purdue and has been published in the \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFortune\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWeekly Standard\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWorldNetDaily,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eIngram's\u003c\/em\u003e, where he serves as executive editor. He is also the author of \u003cem\u003eFirst Strike\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRon Brown's Body\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eHoodwinked: How Intellectual Hucksters Have Hijacked American Culture\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nelson, Thomas, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180054102256,"sku":"9781418551728","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781418551728_p0.jpg?v=1763728091","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781418551728","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}