Ali
by Jonathan Eig, Noelia González Barrancos
Race relationsAfrican AmericansBoxers (Sports)African American boxersPatients
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A long, black Cadillac glides past waving palm trees and stops in front of the Surfside Community Center.
About this book
Muhammad Ali called himself “The Greatest,” and many agreed. He was the wittiest, the prettiest, the brashest, the baddest, the fastest, the loudest, the rashest. Now comes the first complete, unauthorized biography of one of the twentieth century's most fantastic figures. Based on more than 500 interviews with almost all of Ali’s surviving associates, and enhanced by the author’s discovery of thousands of pages of FBI records and newly uncovered Ali interviews from the 1960s, this is the stunning portrait of a man who became a legend. ([source][1]) [1]: http://www.alialife.com/
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Race relationsAfrican AmericansBoxers (Sports)African American boxersPatientsSocial conditions
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Setting
United StatesMiamiSurfside Community Center1960s1942-201620th century20161964
About the author
Jonathan Eig
1964
Ken Burns calls Jonathan Eig a "master storyteller." Eig is the author of five books, three of them New York Times best sellers. He was born in Brooklyn and graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Eig is a former staff writer for The Wall Street Journal, where he remains a contributing writer. Eig has also written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post, among others. Prior to The Wall Street Journal, he worked as a feature writer for Chicago magazine and as a news reporter for The Dallas Morning News and The New Orleans Times-Picayune. Eig's books have been published in 13 languages. His first book, Luckiest Man: The Life and Death…
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