King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero
David Remnick, "King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero"
English | ISBN: 0375702296 | | 352 pages | AZW3 | 1251 KB
English | ISBN: 0375702296 | | 352 pages | AZW3 | 1251 KB
The bestselling biography of Muhammad Ali–with an Introduction by Salman Rushdie
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
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