{"652095":{"#nid":"652095","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Muhammad Ali Has Long Had Book and Film Appeal","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohnny Smith,\u0026nbsp;the Julius C. \u0026quot;Bud\u0026quot; Shaw Professor of Sports History and an associate professor in the School of History and Sociology, was quoted in the article, \u0026quot;Muhammad Ali Has Long Had Book and Film Appeal,\u0026quot; published Oct. 25, 2021, in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe New York Times.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe article discusses the Netflix documentary\u0026nbsp;Blood Brothers: Malcolm X \u0026amp; Muhammad Ali, which is based in part on Smith\u0026#39;s 2016 book of the same name with co-author Randy Roberts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Ever since America discovered Muhammad Ali, we\u0026rsquo;ve been trying to figure out who he really is,\u0026rdquo; said Johnny Smith, a history professor at Georgia Tech, and co-author of the book \u0026ldquo;Blood Brothers,\u0026rdquo; which spawned the Netflix film.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35926","created_gmt":"2021-10-26 19:17:33","changed_gmt":"2021-10-26 19:17:33","author":"schurchman3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/25\/sports\/muhammad-ali-documentaries.html","dateline":{"date":"2021-10-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-10-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"602698":{"id":"602698","type":"image","title":"Johnny Smith ","body":null,"created":"1519232152","gmt_created":"2018-02-21 16:55:52","changed":"1519232152","gmt_changed":"2018-02-21 16:55:52","alt":"","file":{"fid":"229721","name":"JohnSmithWeb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/JohnSmithWeb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/JohnSmithWeb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":97065,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/JohnSmithWeb.jpg?itok=Qh5ePnxI"}}},"media_ids":["602698"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}