{"product_id":"9781328505699","title":"Ali : A Life","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAli\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Jonathan Eig\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNEW 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. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“As Muhammad Ali’s life was an epic of a life so \u003cem\u003eAli: A Life \u003c\/em\u003eis an epic of a biography . . . for pages in succession its narrative reads like a novel––a suspenseful novel with a cast of vivid characters.” –– Joyce Carol Oates, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMuhammad Ali was born Cassius Clay in racially segregated Louisville, Kentucky, the son of a sign painter and a housekeeper. 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. Millions hated him when he changed his religion, changed his name, and refused to fight in the Vietnam War. He fought his way back, winning hearts, but at great cost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJonathan 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. \u003cem\u003eAli: A Life \u003c\/em\u003eis a story about America, about race, about a brutal sport, and about a courageous man who shook up the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2018 PEN\/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing  Winner of The Times Sports Biography of the Year \u003c\/strong\u003e   \"Finally Muhammad Ali has a biography as big, complex, and memorable as the man himself—or as close as any book can come. From panoramic views of Ali's place in racial, political, and cultural conflicts, to gripping accounts of his fights, to vivid close-ups of his outsized personality and relationships based on new sources, \u003cem\u003eAli\u003c\/em\u003e will fascinate you from beginning to end.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—T.J. Stiles, author of \u003cem\u003eCuster's Trials\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe First Tycoon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   “Some people want to grow up to be an astronaut. Or maybe even president. Or heavyweight champion of the world. I always wanted to be a storyteller. The hardest story to tell is one that’s been told and told well before. In \u003cem\u003eAli\u003c\/em\u003e, Jonathan Eig, a fearless reporter, as relentless on his turf as Muhammad Ali ever was within the ring, has taken on one of 20th century America’s biggest, baddest, most important stories and told it bigger and badder than it’s ever been told before. \u003cem\u003eAli: A Life\u003c\/em\u003e floats like a butterfly and stings likes a bee. Stop the fight. It’s over. Eig in a knockout.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Jane Leavy, author of \u003cem\u003eSandy Koufax\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e     “\u003cem\u003eAli\u003c\/em\u003e is a marvelous biography - deeply reported, illuminating, dripping with detail chapter after chapter—in every way worthy of one of the great figures of 20th century America.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Maraniss, author of \u003cem\u003eWhen Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e     \"Finally, after so many works focusing on this fight or that, the whole man, the whole life, is presented here. And what a revelation it is—to be able to see how this remarkable man was shaped by his world, and how that world was, in turn, profoundly influenced by this exceptional and complicated kid from Louisville. Bravo!\"  \u003cstrong\u003e—Ken Burns\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"A warm, compelling portrait of a winsomely enduring man. Eig's richly impressive roster of interviews informs an authoritatively critical biography that is both punchy and sure-footed.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid J. Garrow, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003cem\u003eBearing the Cross\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRising Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   “Jonathan Eig’s \u003cem\u003eAli\u003c\/em\u003e is a tour de force! It is an independent, insightful and masterful assessment of ‘The Greatest!’ Eig’s biography puts flesh and bone on Ali’s fuller humanity. It is a must read for sports fans, boxing fans, students of American history, culture and religion.”\u003cstrong\u003e —Dr. Randal Maurice Jelks, author of \u003cem\u003eBenjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   “A monumental study the scope of which has not been matched. An utterly absorbing and richly detailed account of the most charismatic and controversial athlete of the 20th century.”—\u003cstrong\u003eMike Silver, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Arc of Boxing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"[A] richly researched, sympathetic yet unsparing portrait.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—Joyce Carol Oates, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"[A] relentless, image-altering biography.\u003cstrong\u003e\"—\u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"The first comprehensive biography worthy of this titanic figure. The author of acclaimed books on Lou Gehrig and Jackie Robinson, Eig weaves together Ali’s athletic feats, cultural significance and personal journey. 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