Sucker Punch: The Hard Left Hook That Dazed Ali and Killed King's Dream | 
 enlarge | Author: Jack Cashill
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
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ISBN: 159555033X
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Publication Date: January 31, 2006
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"Everything that he has done was against this country." Joe Frazier on Muhammad Ali Part 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. 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. "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." Cashillreveals 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: Ali was an unapologetic sexist and unabashed racist, calling for the lynching of interracial couples and an American apartheid as late as 1975.
Ali routinely denigrated black heroes who did not share his point of view, including Joe Louis, Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall, and especially Joe Frazier.
Ali shamelessly courted some of the most brutal dictators on the planet: Qadaffi, Idi Amin, Papa Doc Duvalier, Nkrumah, Mobutu, and Ferdinand Marcos. With 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. Jack Cashill has written and directed The Holocaust through Our Own Eyes, The Soul of the West and the Emmy-Award winning The Royal Years 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 Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Fortune, Weekly Standard, WorldNetDaily, and Ingram's, where he serves as executive editor. He is also the author of First Strike, Ron Brown's Body, and Hoodwinked: How Intellectual Hucksters Have Hijacked American Culture.
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 SPORTSMANSHIP January 25, 2007
5 out of 14 found this review helpful
Mohomed Ali was a man who denigrated his opponents,who arragantly boasted about himself and his prowess,in interviews he would babble on almost incoherently about himself.The man sounded like a child who never grew up.His lack of sportsmanship and disrespect for his opponents showed his own lack of class.He was held to a lower standered simply because he is black.Rocky Marciano and Joe Louis were classy MEN who Mohomed could have emulated,but his huge ego prevented that.
this Book stanks November 10, 2006
3 out of 31 found this review helpful
if you want to read on the Greatest then Read Thomas Hauser's Book. Cashill is on some Right Wing Agenda. he wants to be-little Muhammad Ali&talks in a Modern day Bill O'Reily/ Rush Limbagh type of aingle. how can anybody write a Book that trys to flip what Muhammad Ali said back in the day when there was strong Racial,social&Other tensions in the United States?? this Book is a Bad Joke. Cashill is the Sucker who got Agenda Punch to try to take down Muhammad Ali,but nobody can ever sway Me on Muhammad Ali. He was the Voice for Hope. He is a Powerful Force that touched Lived all over the World&still has a Impact that hasn't been felt since. this Book stanks,is loaded&Racist.
Puncturing the Ali Myth... November 4, 2006
6 out of 29 found this review helpful
Whilst there's an enormous industry that has been built around the Ali mythology, especially post Atlanta '96, it's inevitable that someone would see the opportunity and financial benefit of doing a work that seeks to "go contrary" to all-out puncture the Ali myth. The reality is that whilst there are inherent weaknesses in Cahill's work, generalisations, inaccuracies and plain-old "Why didn't he go to Vietnam?" trailer-park conservatism, there's always room for a contrarian view, just as long as it's honest, accurate and robust. (Or failing all of those, it it's fabulously, novelistically written, enter Mark Kram's "Ghosts of Manila"). This book fails purely because it's as agenda-driven as the weaker Ali hagiographies. It's the easiest way to write a poor book: do a treatment of the agenda and then get the facts to fit the predetermined thesis. Bingo, out comes a shallow paperback. I'd counsel any Ali reader with a genuine sense of discovery to go for the (continuingly) great works: Thomas Hauser's, "His Life and Times" and Gerald Early's "The Muhammad Ali Reader" offer rich, panoramic insights into the man, way more balanced, rigorous (exploring good & bad) and far more subtantial that Mr Cashill's ill-informed and under-researched effort. I suspect Mr Cashill is one of those "let's go heavier in Iraq" types that the world needs far fewer of. "Fans" of the book, based on the reviews on Amazon, certainly have their political colours firmly painted on the mast. I bet they still hate Jane Fonda also.
Hitman for the Ultra right. November 3, 2006
8 out of 30 found this review helpful
An unbridled hit piece nothing more. This book relies on Cashill personal observations and opinions and is short on fact. The few facts that are put forward have glaring inaccuracies that make them useless, calling into question the author's motives and research abilities. Another attempt to rewrite history and as usual it is very poorly done.
RACIST REMARKS ABOUT MUHAMMED ALI ARE NOTHING NEW: BUSHLANDIA IS NIXON 1958 September 20, 2006
7 out of 33 found this review helpful
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Read newspapers from the early sixties, etc., to see hate mail for Muhammed, instead of this terrible book. To imply as this title does that Muhammed Ali somehow "Killed King" is beneath contempt, beneath regard, but symptomatic of the perverse wrong-headed psychosis which befalls the guilty head of right wing America. The killers blame the allies. MacBeth blames Banquo's sons.
To accuse Ali of being chummy with Marcos, the right wing US backed dictator of the Philipines, is ridiculous. Marcos was a puppet regime of the USA run in a repressive military manner like our puppet Pinochet we established in Chile after killing its president on 9/11/73. US presidents down to Nixon worked cheek to jowl with Marcos. It was only after Marcos's death that he was revealed for the ugly killer that he was. Ali bears no blame in the Marcos affair. It was the only place he could stage a fight and practice his trade after being blacked out by the US boxing commission due to his political stances. This present book is nothing but a smear job from beginning to end.
For a more complete picture of Mr. Ali, get Hauser's Lost Legacy, which deeply considers some of the salient points raised by this present polemical piece.
Then sit back and listen to Ossie Davis's recording of Soul of the Butterfly, and be healed, revived, resurrected and ready to work once again for peace and for justice.
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