King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero

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With an Introduction by Salman Rushdie

On the night in 1964 that Muhammad Ali (then referred to as Cassius Clay) stepped into the ring with Sonny Liston, he used to be widely thought to be an irritating freak who danced and talked way too much. Six rounds later Ali used to be not only the new world heavyweight boxing champion: He used to be “a new more or less black man” who would in a while turn into The usa’s racial politics, its popular culture, and its notions of heroism.
        
No one has captured Ali–and the era that he exhilarated and now and again infuriated–with greater vibrancy, drama, and astuteness than David Remnick, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of Lenin’s Tomb (and editor of The New Yorker). 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. 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. Most of all, King of the World does justice to the speed, grace, courage, humor, and ebullience of probably the most greatest athletes and irresistibly dynamic personalities of our time.

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