Opinion | Was Mohammed Ali the Very Last Great American Hero?

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Opinion | Was Mohammed Ali the Very Last Great American Hero?
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Of this there is no doubt: he was The Greatest.

who vote for the future immortals, baseball has similarly had a long-simmering argument over the moral qualifications for its Hall of Fame candidates. And that, as it happens, offers a controversy all its own. Since induction brings a substantial boost in sideshow income, isn’t it a conflict of interest for so-called journalists to reward their subjects that way?

The answer is: you don’t. So you go back to Ali, who was stripped of his heavyweight title in 1967 after Ali’s herohood remains unsullied, especially because it’s been sanitized. The fearsome social warrior of 1967 came, in the end, to be celebrated as something of a teddy bear.by Thomas Hauser, the lawyer and novelist who is Ali’s most exhaustive and reliable chronicler.

No wonder I looked for hope in Harmony. After the Zoom interview and some follow-up e-mails, I asked the California eighth grader if she and her project colleagues would answer two short questions: Based on your research, what do you think Ali should be remembered for now? Is that the same thing you might have thought before you did your research?

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