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Paperback. Zustand: Good. 271 pages. In 1966 Muhammad Ali announced his intention to refuse induction into the United States Army as a conscientious objector. This set off a five-year battle that w ould strip him of his world heavyweight title, bar him from boxing, and nearly s end him to prison - all at the peak of his career as the greatest boxer in histo ry. Ali defiantly proclaimed his refusal to go to war with the assertion that it violated his beliefs as a black Muslim. The subsequent legal battle proved to b e a test tougher than fighting Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier and George Foreman comb ined. The struggle that followed Ali's principled stand, one of the pivotal mome nts of the sixties, reverberated across lines demarcated by generation, class, r ace and religion. Set against the dramatic backdrop of these turbulent times, th e book's fascinating cast of characters includes such names as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Jackie Robinson and J. Edgar Hoover. Framed with photos from A li's photographer and good friend Howard Bingham, Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight is the extraordinary story of the greatest challenge to the greatest champion of the century. …