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ALI: A LIFE
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by Jonathan Eig
Winner of the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting
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.
Muhammad ali biography ks2 english subtitles This free resource for primary teachers is a useful tool for teaching the concept of biography in KS2. It offers a structured and engaging way to explore the lives of significant historical figures, focusing on the fascinating story of Muhammad Ali.Based on more than 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 s, this is the stunning portrait of a man who became a legend.
"Until yesterday's publication of 'Ali: A Life,' there was no life of Muhammad Ali, no comprehensive account of the man who called himself -- and came to be called -- 'The Greatest.'" - ESPN
Until yesterday's publication of "Ali: A Life," there was no life of Muhammad Ali, no comprehensive account of the man who called himself -- and came to be called -- "The Greatest." Now, where once yawned a vacuum, there now stands a cinderblock, the product of interviews conducted over five years of archival research and shoe-leather detective work.
The Ali who emerges from Eig's biography is not the saint so many have made him out to be, but rather a figure whose humanity is earthy, complicated, fallible and thus, in these pages, restored.
"Each blow echoes on the pages of Jonathan Eig’s relentless, image-altering biography 'Ali: A Life,'" - The Wall Street Journal
Each blow echoes on the pages of Jonathan Eig’s relentless, image-altering biography “Ali: A Life,” ushering its charismatic but confounding subject toward the silence, illness and exile that preceded his death last year at Though replete with tales of race, religion, war protest, sex, marital turmoil and skulduggery, this book is, more than anything else, an indictment of boxing.
The cumulative damage of Ali’s boxing career is a terrible and haunting thing to read about, and it becomes all the more so when you remind yourself that Mr. Eig’s subject is one of American sports’ most beloved figures, not some luckless tomato can.
"A fine biography of one of the twentieth-century’s defining figures." - Booklist
… Eig takes the story much further, providing fascinating details on Ali’s childhood and, later, on his career as a boxer, both the well-documented triumphs but also the gradual diminution of his skills, which led to the embarrassing last fights and, eventually, to the brain damage and Parkinson’s that defined Ali’s later years.
(Eig even provides a running count of all the punches Ali took in his career, a toll that increased exponentially toward the end.) And yet, after his unsparing recounting of Ali’s bad decisions and moments of cruelty to loved ones and opponents, Eig finds enduring humanity in Ali’s lighting of the Olympic torch shortly before his death and in his many acts of spontaneous kindness, noting that somehow he had “always remained warm and genuine, a man of sincere feeling and wit.” A fine biography of one of the twentieth-century’s defining figures.
"'Ali' is a big, fat, entertaining and illuminating read." - Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Ali" is a big, fat, entertaining and illuminating read.
Much of the story of Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Clay Jr.) is widely known.
Some of us remember his life unfolding on television; others grew familiar with him when he lit the Olympic Torch in , his arm trembling from Parkinson's. There have been many biographies, full and partial, including one published in May.
What makes Eig's book stand out is its broad scope, its detailed reportage and its lively, cinematic writing.