Ali: A Life - Softcover

Jonathan Eig

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1471155943 ISBN 13: 9781471155949

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd

Synopsis

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About this title

About the Author:

Born in New York in 1964, Jonathan Eig is a New York Times bestselling author. A former senior special reporter for the Wall Street Journal, he has also written for the New York Times and Esquire, as well as appearing on The Today Show and The Daily Show. He has written four previous books and lives in Chicago with his wife and children.

Review:

“This richly researched, sympathetic yet unsparing portrait of a controversial figure for whom the personal and the political dramatically fused could not come at a more appropriate time in our beleaguered American history. As Muhammad Ali’s life was an epic of a life so “Ali: A Life” is an epic of a biography...pages in succession its narrative reads like a novel — a suspenseful novel with a cast of vivid characters.” –Joyce Carol Oates, NYT Book Review

“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, Ali will fascinate you from beginning to end.” —T. J. Stiles, author of Custer's Trials and The First Tycoon

“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 Ali, Jonathan Eig, a fearless reporter, as relentless on his turf as Muhammad Ali ever was within the ring, has taken on one of twentieth-century America’s biggest, baddest, most important stories and told it bigger and badder than it’s ever been told before. Ali: A Life floats like a butterfly and stings likes a bee. Stop the fight. It’s over. Eig in a knockout.”—Jane Leavy, author of Sandy Koufax and The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood
 
“Ali is a marvelous biography—deeply reported, illuminating, dripping with detail chapter after chapter—in every way worthy of one of the great figures of twentieth-century America.” —David Maraniss, author of When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi
 
“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!”  —Ken Burns

“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.” —David J. Garrow, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Bearing the Cross and Rising Star

“Jonathan Eig’s Ali 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.” —Dr. Randal Maurice Jelks, author of Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement

“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 twentieth century.”—Mike Silver, author of The Arc of Boxing

“[A] first-rate biography . . . Eig does a fine job of covering all the bases . . . An exemplary life of an exemplary man who, despite a few missteps, deserves to be remembered long into the future.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
 
“This evenhanded account will likely be one of the most read . . .  Eig has produced a thorough overview of a complex person . . . Sharp quotations and expert pacing make the 600-plus pages light on their feet.”—Publishers Weekly
 

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• ISBN 10: 1471155943
• ISBN 13: 9781471155949
• Binding: Paperback