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Jordan, Denise M. , Jordan, Denise M.

Muhammad Ali: Meet the Champion

32 pp. | Enslow | October, 2003 | Library ISBN 0-7660-2272-2 $$17.95

(4) K-3 Meeting Famous People series. Ali is a larger than life character, and this series biography with its strong photos manages to capture the excitement surrounding the well-known athlete. Although the last twenty years are given short shrift, the book provides an account of some of Ali's controversial actions in his earlier years when he joined the Nation of Islam and became a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Melinda Greenblatt