Blues Song for a Fighter

Sonny Liston"" -- these words pictured menace and boxing ring beatings in Americans'' minds in the 1960s.Was the ""Big Ugly Bear,"" as a youthful Muhammad Ali called him, as mean and antisocial as he seemed? Or was he a man -- hampered by illiteracy -- misunderstood?""Blues Song for a Fighter"" reveals the real Sonny Liston: witty, hopeful, vengeful, loving children and his wife, determined, humor...