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The Meaning Of The First Sonny Liston-Muhammad Ali Fight
Over on The Stacks, we're republishing Murray Kempton's classic dispatch from the first Clay-Liston fight, in 1964; you can find the story below. Kempton was an elegant columnist and essayist with a great ear for the overtones and undertones of any public spectacle—mob trials, nominating conventio...

The Champ And The Chump: The Meaning Of Liston-Clay IOriginally published on March 7, 1964, in The New Republic. Reprinted here with the permission of the author's family....
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