Protect Yourself at All Times by Hauser Thomas

Author:Hauser, Thomas
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781610756488
Publisher: Chicago Distribution Center (CDC Presses)

Muhammad Ali: A Life

George Foreman has said, “Muhammad Ali made you love him.” But not everyone felt that way.

Important historical figures are like blocks of marble that writers feel compelled to sculpt. More than fifteen thousand books have been written about Abraham Lincoln. Muhammad Ali won’t reach that mark, but his life invites exploration.

There will always be a need and a market for good Ali scholarship. The most notable of the recent Ali books is Blood Brothers by Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith, an extraordinary recounting of the relationship between Ali and Malcolm X that expands what we know about Ali, Malcolm, and their time. Other books have succeeded in varying degree in recounting a particular facet of Ali’s life or his life as a whole.

Some doors close to writers over time. Potential interview subjects pass from the scene. Half of the two hundred people I interviewed while researching Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times between 1988 and 1990 have died since then. But other avenues of exploration have opened up as government files are declassified and personal archives become available to scholars.

The latest effort at chronicling the life of Muhammad Ali is Ali: A Life by Jonathan Eig (published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).

Referencing Cassius Clay on the night of his first fight against Sonny Liston, Eig writes:

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