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Books: From the black and blue corner; Facing Ali - The Opposition Weighs In by Stephen Brunt (Sidgwick & Jackson pounds 16.99) & Muhammad Ali - The Glory Years by Felix Dennis and Don Atyeo (Ebury Press pounds 30). Reviewed by Michael Emery.(Features)
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Byline: Michael Emery
The story of Muhammad Ali has been told time and time again and his legend examined in countless biographies, written in the main by writers so in awe of their subject that a true picture of the most famous man in the world seldom emerges.
As Mark Kram suggested in his influential Ghosts of Manilla, the Ali legend began in a place of truth - in this case supernatural boxing skills - and ended in a place of fantasia, celebrated for the wrong reasons by a generation of media who were not even born when Ali was in his prime.
It ...
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