![]() ![]() Ali was a mirror of his era, a dynamic figure in the racial and cultural clashes of his time and King of the World is a classic piece of non-fiction and a book worthy of America's most dynamic modern hero. This unforgettable account of Muhammad Alis rise and self-creation, told by a Pullitzer Prize-winning writer, places Ali in a heritage of great American. ![]() The book begins in September 1962 with the fight between Floyd Patteson and Sonny Liston, providing a remarkable sociological backdrop to Alis entrance on the boxing scene. ![]() With grace and power, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Remnick tells of a transcendent athlete and entertainer, a rapper before rap was born. David Remnick concentrates on Alis early career, when he was still fighting as Cassius Clay. King of the World is the story of an incredible rise to power, a book of battles fought inside the ring and out. 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 from Louisville, 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. When Cassius Clay burst onto the sports scene in the 1950s, he broke the mould. Cassius Clay threw punches into the gray floating haze and waited for the bell. A cloud of cigar smoke drifted through the ring lights. ![]() With an introduction by Salman Rushdie and an afterword by the author. ![]()
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