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Article: Grappling with the greatest. (interview with writer David Remnick on boxing great Muhammad Ali)(Interview)
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- November 1, 1998
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In an extraordinarily revealing new book, New Yorker editor David Remnick shows how Muhammad Ali's blend of defiance and humor changed the sound and feel of the '60s as much as did the Beatles or the Rolling Stones
When Muhammad Ali proclaimed "I am the greatest!" in the '60s it was a bold and revolutionary assertion of the notion that black is both powerful and beautiful. But writers or filmmakers who take on a subject as titanic as Ali assume a terrible challenge. With such a familiar subject, the turf may be so trodden that there is no moisture left to squeeze from it. If, in his new book on Ali, King of the World, David Remnick has found fresh ground, It is in ...