Ali : a life / Jonathan Eig.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780544435247
- ISBN: 0544435249
- ISBN: 9780544435247 : HRD
- ISBN: 0544435249 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780544435247
- ISBN: 0544435249
- Physical Description: xv, 623 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 543-604) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Preface: Miami, 1964 -- Cassius Marcellus Clay -- The loudest child -- The bicycle -- "Every day was heaven" -- The prophet -- "I'm just young and don't give a damn" -- America's hero -- Dreamer -- "Twentieth-century exuberance" -- "It's show business" -- Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee -- The ugly bear -- "So what's wrong with the Muslims?" -- Becoming Muhammad Ali -- Choice -- "Girl, will you marry me?" -- Assassination -- Phantom punch -- True love -- A holy war -- No quarrel -- "What's my name?" -- "Against the furies" -- Exile -- Faith -- Martyr -- Song and dance and prayer -- The greatest book of all time -- Stand by me -- Comeback -- "The world is watching you" -- A different fighter -- The five-million-dollar match -- Ali v. Frazier -- Freedom -- Trickeration -- A fight to the finish -- Heart of darkness -- Fighter's heaven -- "Ali boma ye!" -- Rumble in the jungle -- Moving on up -- Impulses -- Ali-Frazier III -- Getting old -- "They may not let me quit" -- "Do you remember Muhammad Ali?" -- Staggered -- Crown Prince -- Old -- Humpty Dumpty -- The last hurrah -- Too many punches -- "He's human, like us" -- A torch -- The long, black Cadillac -- Postscript. |
Summary, etc.: | "Based on more than 500 interviews, including Muhammad Ali's closest associates, and enhanced by access to thousands of pages of newly released FBI records, this is a thrilling story of a man who became one of the great figures of the twentieth century."-- Provided by publisher. |
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Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | B ALI, M EIG (Text) | 34005126111201 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | 796.83092 ALI (Text) | 32544072482655 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | B ALI (Text) | 34014140333759 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | 92 ALI (MUHAMMAD) (Text) | 34026141101084 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
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