(Thanks, Dad!) I’m glad I selected this book for review as I think I learned and grew from this read. Besides, my father has read the Qur’an, so I thought this might be a good way to connect with him as he fastidiously reads all my reviews in full. In the end, though, curiosity won over and I thought I would take a chance on this book. After all, I didn’t want to perform an injustice to a subject I knew very little about. Martin’s Press asked if I would be interested in reviewing this book, I hemmed and hawed on the request. I also knew very little about its guiding prophet Muhammad (peace be with him) aside from a possible caricature or two - such as he was a polygamist. Before reading this book, I didn’t know much about the history of the religion and its geopolitical context. He was discharged from parole in December 2021.I have a confession to make as a white, English-speaking, Protestant Christian: I know almost nothing about Islam, except when it involves tales of mosque vandalizations and other examples of Islamophobia featured in the news. Simpson served nine years in a Nevada prison for armed robbery. In a separate case more than a decade later, Simpson was convicted by a jury in Las Vegas for leading five men, including two with guns, in a 2007 confrontation with two sports collectibles dealers in a cramped room at an off-strip Las Vegas casino hotel.
It was almost two decades after Warhol’s photo shoot, in 1995, that Simpson-who had retired from the NFL in 1979 and pursued an acting career- was acquitted of the double slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. He was later found liable for the deaths by a California civil court jury that ordered him to pay $33.5 million to the victims’ families. “Warhol certainly could never have imagined how differently the image would come to be viewed, nor the controversy that still lingers around its subject today,” said Robert Manley, cohead of 20th-century and contemporary art at the Phillips auction house, which is auctioning the work May 16. Signed by both men, the portrait is billed by the auction house as a work that brings together two of the most recognizable names of the 20th century and captures “a trajectory of celebrity and tragedy.” That Polaroid shoot led to 11 silkscreen portraits one of them is now going on auction for the first time.
Simpson, then 30, showed up without a football or a jersey, and Warhol had to scramble to find a ball.
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