Ali: A Life
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About The Book
Muhammad Ali was born Cassius Clay in racially segregated Louisville, Kentucky, the son of a sign painter and a housekeeper. 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. Millions hated him when he changed his religion, changed his name, and refused to fight in the Vietnam War. He fought his way back, winning hearts, but at great cost.
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. Ali: A Life is a story about America, about race, about a brutal sport, and about a courageous man who shook up the world.
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About the author
Jonathan Eig: Jonathan Eig is a critically acclaimed, bestselling author known for his in-depth narrative biographies. His books include Luckiest Man, a biography of Lou Gehrig, and Opening Day, about the integration of baseball. His work Ali: A Life is a sweeping biography of Muhammad Ali. A contributing writer for the Wall Street Journal, Eig brings journalistic precision and narrative depth to his subjects. He also worked with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns to develop a four-part documentary series on Ali, extending his research into a major multimedia project.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9781328505699
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books
Author
Jonathan Eig
Pages
2018
Year Published
2018
Size
W-6 in | H-9 in | D-1.7 in
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