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=Evaluation of Sources (250-400 words)= Source 1 The origin of this secondary source Ali: The Boxer, is from Gregory Allen Howard who happened to be a friend of Ali. It is unknown when or where this source was written. The purpose of this source is to show the events of Muhammad Ali’s boxing career. Its value lies in Howard’s friendship with Ali. He has access to the events of Ali’s life. Supposedly he would have talked with Ali before he published this article. Looking at its limitations, when Allen Howard describes the fights, we do not know whether he was at the fight or not. Being a secondary source, the actual events can get distorted. This article was written for a website dedicated to Ali’s greatness, so we only get one side of who Ali really was. This article is narrow in its depth because it largely focuses on Ali’s success. A huge set back is the fact that the date that this article was published is unknown, because we could understand the purpose better because society is a large emphasis on a historian, if we consider all history to be contemporary history. The article is also full of personal opinion which we assume is due to Howard’s friendship with Ali. However it is subjective in where it approaches the involvement of the nation. //“the national furor over that comment combined with Ali’s refusal to be inducted to the Armed Services, caused virtually every state and local entity in America to cancel Ali’s boxing license”// This statement is credible because it is a known fact that Americans supported the war at the start, and it was considered un-American to not fight for your country.

Source 2 King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero was written by David Remnick in 1998 in New York. It is dedicated to having insight into the life of Ali on every level and the life of society at that time. It is a secondary source that focuses heavily on the narrative aspect. It has great value because Remnick wrote this book from interviews with Muhammad himself. So in a sense is a biography. Having Ali as the source, Remnick is able to show the Ali’s true nature and the times that he lived in. Its limitation is that it is very narrative. It does not subjectively present things. With all the narrative, it does not evaluate on certain events, therefore misses the great picture. It has great depth in the events that happened but not necessarily what it stood for. Also it does not include much Ali’s life after his conviction was reversed by the Supreme Court.