More Than a Champion: The Style of Muhammad Ali - Rilegato

Reemtsma, Jan Philipp

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ISBN 10: 0375400303 ISBN 13: 9780375400308

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1998

Riassunto

A noted German intellectual presents a study of the boxing style of Muhammad Ali, his rise and fall as world champion, and his reflection of American culture

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L'autore:

Jan Philipp Reemtsma was born in Germany in 1952. A philologist by training, he is the director of both the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and the Arno Schmidt Foundation. He lives in Hamburg.

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Europe's most prominent intellectuals: a brilliant, utterly original study of the boxing style of Muhammad Ali; of his rise, ascendancy, and fall as champion of the world; and of how Ali the man came to reflect many of our own deep, often disturbing, cultural patterns.

This virtuoso essay takes as its narrative framework the legendary Ali vs. Joe Frazier fight in Manila in 1975, which Jan Philipp Reemtsma follows in three-round sections. Intercut with these vivid and telling accounts of what actually is going on (as opposed to what merely appears to be) are much wider ranging sections exploring the choreography (it is not too grand a word) that Ali crafted for his greatest title bouts, how he created a style that became its own myth, how he then came to have to act that style in the ring, and its damaging consequences.

Reemtsma also provides portraits of Ali's opponents: Sonny Liston, George Foreman, Ken Norton, and, above all, Joe Frazier, the strongest "big puncher&qu

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0375400303
• ISBN 13: 9780375400308
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 172