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."--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eig, Jonathan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.