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

Name: King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero
Author: David Remnick
ISBN: 9781447289562

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#2115 of 3,809 books · #747 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (1998).

Revealing the extraordinary rise of a young fighter from Louisville who changed the world of sports, King of the World chronicles the incredible battles fought by Muhammad Ali inside the ring and out. It was the night of February 25, 1964. A cloud of cigar smoke drifted through the ring lights. Cassius Clay threw punches into the gray floating haze and waited for the bell. When Cassius Clay burst onto the sports scene in the 1950s, he broke the mould. He changed the world of sports and went on to change the world itself: from his early fights as Cassius Clay, the young, wiry man, unwilling to play the noble and grateful warrior in a white world, to becoming Muhammad Ali, the voice of black America and the most recognized face on the planet. King of the World is the story of an incredible rise to power. Ali was a mirror of his era, a dynamic figure in the racial and cultural clashes of his time.

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