Admire and he is here this morning to talk about his new book and a new biography of mohammed ali. I understand this is his only third stop. For he speaks ive been asked to mention a few things. First, the book possible,a of course, is pretty but if you would like to contribute to the cause you can do that at the headquarters for the book possible outside ort online and also i reminded after his remarks he will be heading over to the signing tent which is next to the tent out on the main plaza so you can have him sign your bookrn over there. Jonathans regard is one of the top writers of narrative nonfiction which is my favorite style. Its a fantastic author and bestselling book including two that i have read on lou gehrig and Jackie Robinson. Jonathan is written for the New York Times, theac new yorker, esquire in the Washington Post today he is a contributing writer for the wall street journal. His biography of commonality is the most anticipated book of the fall is you have checked o
Him him him him him him him. Give me one more title for the fall. One more title is really exciting and interesting is a little bit of an expansion from our work and mormon study. It it is called bearing witness. It is an edited collection and it is a firsthand stories of the 36 mormon women in all spectrum of the states representing different stories of how they do a marriage, love, sex, marrying outside the mormon religion and the pressures that, in some cases to have a very traditional mormon relationship. Its a very interesting book and ties in with some of our feminist media studies book. One is that coming out . That is coming out in september. Steve fast is the publicity manager for the university of illinois press. Civil rights activist and president ial medal recipient, mohammed ali died on friday. He was 74 years old. In february, history professor Randy Roberts was on book tv to discuss the public and private relationship between malcolm x and mohammed ali. Im the events dir
A champion who gave up perhaps the best years of his life by taking a stand, a personal stand saying he would not serve in the draft. He would not fight against the communists in vietnam, and he paid the price for that with some of the best years of his life. But he came back and became champion again. Gary radnich is here now. And this is certainly somebody that just transcends sports. And with next time you see an athlete make a prediction, stick out his chest and tell you what hes going to do it all began with ali. His career began in lewisville kentucky where he won an olympic light heavy weight gold medal. And upon his return, he found that racism with a gold medal around his neck or not was still very prevalent in his native lewisville. The story goes he went to a bridge, threw his gold medal into the water never to retrieve it. And it went on to become the heavy weight champion. In the early 60s he was a 71 underdog when he took on sonny lipton and he said im going to beat this
Ovaries too and researchers say it may save their lives. Remember herald ramus and he created some of the funniest movies of all time. Good morning to you and welcome to Al Jazeera America, im Morgan Radford and live from new york city. All the calm today in kiev independent square where an acting president is now in place and leaders are laying the ground work for a new government and as for the countrys former president Victor Yanukovich remains on the run and a warrant out for his arrest and scheduled for today. And al jazeeras Jennifer Glasse is live from kiev and jennifer it looks like things have finally calmed down but is it back to business as usual . Well, you know, morgan, yesterday was the first day for people back at work in kiev where a week where we saw dozens of People Killed here in the center of the city and the people are trying their very best to get back to normal. Reporter not long ago away from independent square the capitol was like a ghost town. Last week i was
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