Redemption Song PA (New)

Shortlisted for the 1999 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and voted one of the twenty-five 'Books to Remember 2000' by the New York Public Library.In this timely antidote tro the apolitical celebration of Muhammad Ali as 'a great American', Mike Marqusee puts the great boxer back in his true historical context too explore a crucial moment at the crossroads of popular culture and mass resistance. And, in a new afterword for this second edition, he reflects on Ali's legacy in the era of the 'war on terror'.

Mike Marqusee was born in the United States, but moved to Britain in 1971, at the age of eighteen. He is the author of several path-breaking books on the politics of modern sport. These include Anyone Sut England, a study of race, class and nationality in cricket, which caused a furore on its publication in 1994 and won the Aberdare Literary Prize from the British Society of Sports History, and War Minus the Shooting, a riveting account of the controversy-shrouded cricket World Cup held in South Asia in 1996. He was recently appointed the first-ever Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Sport Development Research at Roehampton Institute.