then he gets put on his rear end by joe frazier in the 14th round, a vicious left hook. he was up in a second and a half. he later said he was unconscious on the way down in the ground woke up. he bounces right back up, finishes that fight, he loses and he has to start fighting his way back to a rematch with fraser come a shot at the heavyweight championship and this is when americans show respect for him because his toughness is not in question. used to be thought he was so quick and pretty and talkative that he wasn't a true champ but now people begin to admire his tenacity if nothing else. still may not agree with his politics but in the 70s the civil rights movement has moved off the street and into the courts. mohammed ali is a popular figure, he's on johnny carson all the time. he said he hated white people, white people were the blue-eyed devil and is still saying stuff like that but also joking with johnny carson and has the ability to charm us. impossible to hate the guy. his high school girlfriend that you cannot be in a bad mood around mohammed ali. even peopl

joe frazier was kind to ali especially when he was out of boxing, lent him money and offer to help them find work and went ali returned it to ring he was brutal and merciless towards frazier and called him a cult common try to humiliate him and it hurt joe and his whole family. his son said he was taunted at school because your daddy is uncle tom and it was strange because ali always treated his white opponents better than his black opponents, so i'm not sure i can explain the behavior. it's a shame no one ever said to him, back off of joe it's not funny anymore. i think all he thought he would give him an edge in the ring, a psychological edge if he could get under the skin of his opponent, but he later apologized to joe late life, but i get the impression from joe that maybe it was too little too late. thank you very much for being here. it's really been a pleasure. great book festival. thank you so much. [applause].

you were married with him from the vietnam protest through all the joe frazier rights and i need you to tell me what it's like too be married to this man. she said okay, how much will you pay me? i get that a lot in the boxing world. this is ali's brother and i called them up a few times and he wouldn't answer or talk to me and i said one question. one question for you. not talking to hellish payment. just tell me the name of your dogs name. he said $1000. y said i will not tell you without english give me a thousand's dollars. i said i don't pay for interviews but i'm very persistent so you can ask your wife. in boxing they say you're fighting above your weight when you're just like my wife is an impressive woman and the fact that you got with me tell you how persistent i am and that is what they would say. as i set out on this quest to understand his life and this is a home where ali grew up and he told me that ali used to stand in the cracks houses there on the right and challenge him to throw rocks at him and see if he could hit them. not much room to dodge and i measured it. 72

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ali returned it to ring he was brutal and merciless towards frazier and called him a cult common try to humiliate him and it hurt joe and his whole family. his son said he was taunted at school because your daddy is uncle tom and it was strange because ali always treated his white opponents better than his black opponents, so i'm not sure i can explain the behavior. it's a shame no one ever said to him, back off of joe it's not funny anymore. i think all he thought he would give him an edge in the ring, a psychological edge if he could get under the skin of his opponent, but he later apologized to joe late life, but i get the impression from joe that maybe it was too little too late. thank you very much for being here. it's really been a pleasure. great book festival. thank you so much. [applause]. >> good morning. good morning and welcome to nashville and the southern festival of the books. behind the curtain, money, politics and imperiled republic. we are fortunate today to have two authors who are really addressing some issues we deal with today. weed to live in many ways in imperiled times and dealing with the c