![]() an important account of a period in American social history. Most of all, King of the World does justice to the speed, grace, courage, humor, and ebullience of one of the greatest athletes and irresistibly dynamic personalities of our time. He gives us empathetic portraits of wisecracking sportswriters and bone-breaking mobsters of the baleful Liston and the haunted Patterson of an audacious Norman Mailer and an enigmatic Malcolm X. In charting Ali's rise from the gyms of Louisville, Kentucky, to his epochal fights against Liston and Floyd Patterson, Remnick creates a canvas of unparalleled richness. 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 Lenin's Tomb (and editor of "The New Yorker"). 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. ![]() 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. reveal details that even close followers of might not have known. "Best Nonfiction Book of the Year" -"Time" Ali was a mirror of his era, a dynamic figure in the racial and cultural clashes of his time and King of the World is a classic piece of non-fiction and a book worthy of Americas most dynamic modern hero. ![]() as a starburst of energy, ego and ability whose like will never be seen again." -"The Wall Street Journal" With grace and power, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Remnick tells of a transcendent athlete and entertainer, a rapper before rap was born. ![]() "Succeeds more than any previous book in bringing Ali into focus. ![]()
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