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Cassius The Defiant Gladiator

Lucy Hughes-Hallett KING OF THE WORLD: MUHAMMAD ALI AND THE RISE OF AN AMERICAN HERO by David Remnick Picador, £14.99, pp. 326 I n his prime Muhammad All was every- thing he......

When A Man Stops Believing In God . . .

Robbie Millen HOLY MADNESS: ROMANTICS, PATRIOTS AND REVOLUTIONARIES, 1776-1871 by Adam Zamoyski Weidenfeld, f25, pp. 498 H istory has been held hostage, insult- ed and violated......