The author of acclaimed books on Lou Gehrig and Jackie Robinson, Eig weaves together Ali’s athletic feats, cultural significance and personal journey. Ali: A Life is a story about America, about race, about a brutal sport, and about a courageous man who shook up the world. Jonathan Eig’s Ali: A Life is the first comprehensive biography worthy of this titanic figure. Jonathan Eig, hailed by Ken Burns as one of America’s master storytellers, sheds important new light on Ali’s politics, religion, personal life, and neurological condition through unprecedented access to all the key people in Ali’s life, more than 500 interviews and thousands of pages of previously unreleased FBI and Justice Department files and audiotaped interviews from the 1960s. He fought his way back, winning hearts, but at great cost. Millions hated him when he changed his religion, changed his name, and refused to fight in the Vietnam War. He went on to become a heavyweight boxer with a dazzling mix of power and speed, a warrior for racial pride, a comedian, a preacher, a poet, a draft resister, an actor, and a lover. Muhammad Ali was born Cassius Clay in racially segregated Louisville, Kentucky, the son of a sign painter and a housekeeper. Over and over, Ali wobbled but did not fall. Over and over, through fifteen rounds, Shavers hit Ali with sledgehammer blows.
He certainly should not have been fighting men like Shavers.
for pages in succession its narrative reads like a novel––a suspenseful novel with a cast of vivid characters.” –– Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times Book Review Ali, meanwhile, hadn’t been the same since his gruesome fight with Joe Frazier in 1975the Thrilla in Manila. “As Muhammad Ali’s life was an epic of a life so Ali: A Life is an epic of a biography.
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