Succeeds more than any previous book in bringing Ali into focus
. . . as a starburst of energy, ego and ability whose like will
never be seen again.--The Wall Street Journal
"Best Nonfiction Book of the Year"--Time
"Penetrating . . . reveal[s] details that even close followers of
[Ali] might not have known. . . . An amazing story." --The New
York Times
On the night in 1964 that Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay)
stepped into the ring with Sonny Liston, he was widely regarded as
an irritating freak who danced and talked way too much. Six rounds
later Ali was not only the new world heavyweight boxing champion:
He was "a new kind of black man" who would shortly transform
America's racial politics, its popular culture, and its notions of
heroism.
No one has captured
Ali--and the era that he exhilarated and sometimes infuriated--with
greater vibrancy, drama, and astuteness than David Remnick, the
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lenin's Tomb (and editor of
The New Yorker). In charting Ali's rise from the gyms of
Louisville, Kentucky, to his epochal fights against Liston and
Floyd Patterson, Remnick creates a canvas of unparalleled richness.
He gives us empathetic portraits of wisecracking sportswriters and
bone-breaking mobsters; of the baleful Liston and the haunted
Patterson; of an audacious Norman Mailer and an enigmatic Malcolm
X. Most of all, King of the World does justice to the speed,
grace, courage, humor, and ebullience of one of the greatest
athletes and irresistibly dynamic personalities of our time.
"Nearly pulse-pounding narrative power . . . an important account
of a period in American social history." --Chicago
Tribune
"A pleasure . . . haunting . . . so vivid that one can imagine Ali
saying, 'How'd you get inside my head, boy?'" --Wilfrid Sheed,
Time
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