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The Cruelest Sport

A romance of (expendable) maleness—in which The Fight is honored, and even great champions come, and go.

Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times

by Thomas Hauser

The Black Lights: Inside the World of Professional Boxing

by Thomas Hauser

Sports Illustrated Boxing's Best: Muhammad Ali

HBO Video, 60 minutes, $9.99

Ali vs. Foreman, 1974

Hemdale Home Video, 44 minutes, $19.95

The Ali/Norton Trilogy

NAC Home Video, 90 minutes (out of print)

Muhammad Ali: Skill, Brains and Guts

Vid-America Inc., 90 minutes (out of print)

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by James A. Stimson

The Reasoning Voter: Communication and Persuasion in Presidential Campaigns

by Samuel L. Popkin

The End of Realignment? Interpreting American Electoral Eras

edited by Byron E. Shafer


Collapsing Modernism

The Details of Modern Architecture

by Edward R. Ford

Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade

by Vincent Scully


JFK’s Big Moment

The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963

by Michael R. Beschloss

Eyeball to Eyeball: The Inside Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis

by Dino A. Brugioni


Lawrence in Love

D.H. Lawrence: The Early Years, 1885–1912

by John Worthen


The Alchemist

Anselm Kiefer

by Mark Rosenthal

The Books of Anselm Kiefer, 1969-1990

edited by Götz Adriani, translated by Bruni Mayor

Anselm Kiefer: The High Priestess

foreword by Anne Seymour, essay by Armin Zweite

Anselm Kiefer: Lilith

essay by Doreet LeVitte Harten

Anselm Kiefer: Jason

essay by John Hutchinson


Inside the Box

The Mind's Sky: Human Intelligence in a Cosmic Context

by Timothy Ferris


Demonic Democracy

Fleeing the Iron Cage: Culture, Politics, and Modernity in the Thought of Max Weber

by Lawrence A. Scaff

Max Weber Briefe 1906–1908 (Max Weber Gesamtausgabe, Abteilung II, Band V)

edited by M. Rainer Lepsius, edited by Wolfgang J. Mommsen, in collaboration with Birgit Rudhard and Manfred Schön


The Haunting of Thomas De Quincey

The Infection of Thomas De Quincey: A Psychopathology of Imperialism

by John Barrell


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