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 enlarge | Author: Dave Kindred
Publisher: Blackstone
Category: Book
List Price: $99.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 2083903
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 11
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 6.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 0786171456
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.83092
EAN: 9780786171453
ASIN: 0786171456
Publication Date: March 15, 2006
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Mr. SportsTelevision Meets Mr. Boxing March 26, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Mr. Kindred is a wonderful storyteller in this very readable dual biography of two controversial men: Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell. Like "Beyond Glory" -2005- by David Margolick (which tells another story of a white man and a black man linked by history in the 1930's), "Sound and Fury" is a history of a later era, the chaotic 1960's, and a history of two outsiders. Mr. Margolick makes clear that their relationship was less of a friendship and more of a partnership -- the two of them never hung out socially but each saw the other as a genius in their domain who could further their respective careers. This book is a wonderful introduction to their lives for any reader who was born after the time when Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell had already come and gone, and as a reminder to those of us who were there.
A compelling social history told through sport March 3, 2006
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
For those of us who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s, The Sound and Fury is a wondrous re-telling of the period through the lives of two unlikely partners, Howard Cosell and Muhammad Ali. It is not a boxing book. It is a work of social history, responsibly reported and told. Dave Kindred's superior writing and interviewing have made a book that should last for many years. The tales of Cosell's and Ali's lives, each up-from-bootstraps, and their accidental friendship, will impress even the most jaded sports fans and grownups.
I could not stop reading this once I began.
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