'This richly researched, sympathetic yet unsparing portrait of a controversial figure for whom the personal and the political dramatically fused could not come at a more appropriate time in our beleaguered American history. Winner of The Times Sports Biography of the Year Winner of the 2018 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing Ali: A Life is a story about America, about race, about a brutal sport, and about a courageous man who shook up the world.Ī New York Times Bestseller and Notable Book of 2018 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. 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 'As Muhammad Ali's life was an epic of a life so Ali: A Life is an epic of a biography. Description NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the 2018 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing Winner of The Times Sports Biography of the Year The definitive biography of an American icon, from a best-selling author with unique access to Ali's inner circle.

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