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Loading... Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship (edition 2007)by Dave Kindred PointedPundit | Mar 23, 2008 |    ) burningdervish | Nov 29, 2016 | Using two cultural giants – Mohammad Ali and Howard Cosell – he has produced a fresh and readable social history of the latter half of the Twentieth Century. Let me be clear. The Pointed Pundit loves Ali. Kindred refers to him as the most influential sports figure of the last century. In my mind, he understates the case; Ali is the most influential person of the last century. Cosell, on the other hand, may have hesitated to tell you he was. He was not. Trained as a lawyer and gifted with the ability to articulate complexity, he brought a thinking man’s view to radio and television sports journalism. Individually, they were interesting. Together, they were hypnotizing. They produced controversy, drama and comedy almost every time they appeared together. Dave Kindred tells the story of this alliance from a unique perspective. As a newspaper and magazine sports columnist with nearly 40 years experience, he covered Ali’s early fight days as a reporter for the Louisville Courier-Journal before moving on to the The Atlanta Journal- Courier and The Washington Post. He draws upon his experiences to re-create the Ali-Cosell story in ways I have never seen attempted. The result is a fascinating portrait of two outsized figures – their heroics and their demons. Drawing on personal observations, fresh reporting and interviews, Kindred writes a page-turning treatment of two lives that together changed sports, television and the Pointed Pundit would argue, the world, forever. Penned by the Pointed Pundit September 27, 2006 10:36:50 AM (  ) PointedPundit | Mar 23, 2008 | franoscar | Jan 4, 2008 | |
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Using two cultural giants – Mohammad Ali and Howard Cosell – he has produced a fresh and readable social history of the latter half of the Twentieth Century. Let me be clear. The Pointed Pundit loves Ali. Kindred refers to him as the most influential sports figure of the last century. In my mind, he understates the case; Ali is the most influential person of the last century.
Cosell, on the other hand, may have hesitated to tell you he was. He was not. Trained as a lawyer and gifted with the ability to articulate complexity, he brought a thinking man’s view to radio and television sports journalism.
Individually, they were interesting. Together, they were hypnotizing. They produced controversy, drama and comedy almost every time they appeared together.
Dave Kindred tells the story of this alliance from a unique perspective. As a newspaper and magazine sports columnist with nearly 40 years experience, he covered Ali’s early fight days as a reporter for the Louisville Courier-Journal before moving on to the The Atlanta Journal- Courier and The Washington Post. He draws upon his experiences to re-create the Ali-Cosell story in ways I have never seen attempted.
The result is a fascinating portrait of two outsized figures – their heroics and their demons. Drawing on personal observations, fresh reporting and interviews, Kindred writes a page-turning treatment of two lives that together changed sports, television and the Pointed Pundit would argue, the world, forever.
Penned by the Pointed Pundit
September 27, 2006
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