Michael Ezra is professor of American multicultural studies at Sonoma State University. He is the author of the book Muhammad Ali: The Making of an Icon and the editor of the books Civil Rights Movement: People and Perspectives and The Economic Civil Rights Movement: African Americans and the Struggle for Economic Power. He is the co-editor of the book The Bittersweet Science: Fifteen Writers in the Gym, in the Corner, and at Ringside and the editor of the peer-reviewed Journal of Civil and Human Rights.
Even the most experienced and knowledgeable readers of boxing history and the life and times of Muhammad Ali will learn many new things from this engagingly written and well-researched work.