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Author's Note
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Prologue: They Charmed and Bedeviled Us
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Part 1
Dreaming
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"Bound Together By a Common Sympathy"
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2
"America Was in Everybody's Mouth"
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3
"You Got a Little Joe Louis There"
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"Liston is a Tramp, I'm the Champ"
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"The Black Man's White Man"
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"I Don't Have to Be What You Want Me to Be"
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"I Ain't Got Nothing Against Them Viet Cong"
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Part 2
Climbing
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"We Don't Want to Live With the White Man"
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"Tel-e-VISION!"
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"You'll Never Really Know Him"
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Part 3
At The Top
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"God Knows the World Wants Me to Win"
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"I'm the Only One Who Can Tell It"
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"I Ain't Gonna Wind Up Like Malcolm X"
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"A Twentieth-Century Torture Device"
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"You Know You Need Me More Than I Need You"
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Part 4
Falling
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"You Feelin' Any Pain, Joe, Feelin' Any Pain?"
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"I Know Who I Am"
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"Mother Cosell, Saving Us All From Prostitution"
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"I'd Rather Be Punished Here Than in the Hereafter"
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"Your Unconquerable Soul"
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"The World's Waiting For Me"
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"You Stood Up and Told the Truth"
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Part 5
Rising
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"He's America's Only Living Saint"
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Epilogue: "The Alpha and the Omega"
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Acknowledgments
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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