Ali : a life /
"Based on more than 500 interviews, including Muhammad Ali's closest associates, and enhanced by access to thousands of pages of newly released FBI records, this is a thrilling story of a man who became one of the great figures of the twentieth century."--
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface : Miami, 1964
- Cassius Marcellus Clay
- The loudest child
- The bicycle
- "Every day was heaven"
- The prophet
- "I'm just young and don't give a damn"
- America's hero
- Dreamer
- "Twentieth-century exuberance"
- "It's show business"
- Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
- The ugly bear
- "So what's wrong with the Muslims?"
- Becoming Muhammad Ali
- Choice
- "Girl, will you marry me?"
- Assassination
- Phantom punch
- True love
- A holy war
- No quarrel
- "What's my name?"
- "Against the furies"
- Exile
- Faith
- Martyr
- Song and dance and prayer
- The greatest book of all time
- Stand by me
- Comeback
- "The world is watching you"
- A different fighter
- The five-million-dollar match
- Ali v. Frazier
- Freedom
- Trickeration
- A fight to the finish
- Heart of darkness
- Fighter's heaven
- "Ali boma ye!"
- Rumble in the jungle
- Moving on up
- Impulses
- Ali-Frazier III
- Getting old
- "They may not let me quit"
- "Do you remember Muhammad Ali?"
- Staggered
- Crown Prince
- Old
- Humpty Dumpty
- The last hurrah
- Too many punches
- "He's human, like us"
- A torch
- The long, black Cadillac
- Postscript.