It is part of the fulminations of life that nothing happens in isolation. Every trend, every event, even seemingly sudden individual actions, are intimately connected to a complex skein of other forces or conditions that either flow to or flow from that action.
Many professional journalists or documentary makers routinely reveal these connections in their work, leading to an understanding of the event itself, and, more importantly, to an understanding of the wider world seen in those connections.
A book dealing with the Ali-Frazier heavyweight championship bout in Manila, for example, will unavoidably deal with the wheeling and dealing behind championship boxing matches; it will explain the personal journey that led Ali to Islam and to his consequent ridiculing of
