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King of the World
King of the World: Muhammed Ali and the Rise of an American Hero | David Remnick
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With an Introduction by Salman Rushdie On the night in 1964 that Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) stepped into the ring with Sonny Liston, he was widely regarded as an irritating freak who danced and talked way too much. Six rounds later Ali was not only the new world heavyweight boxing champion: He was "a new kind of black man" who would shortly transform America's racial politics, its popular culture, and its notions of heroism. No one has captured Ali--and the era that he exhilarated and sometimes infuriated--with greater vibrancy, drama, and astuteness than David Remnick, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lenin's Tomb (and editor of The New Yorker). In charting Ali's rise from the gyms of Louisville, Kentucky, to his epochal fights against Liston and Floyd Patterson, Remnick creates a canvas of unparalleled richness. He gives us empathetic portraits of wisecracking sportswriters and bone-breaking mobsters; of the baleful Liston and the haunted Patterson; of an audacious Norman Mailer and an enigmatic Malcolm X. Most of all, King of the World does justice to the speed, grace, courage, humor, and ebullience of one of the greatest athletes and irresistibly dynamic personalities of our time. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Movie: Ali

Forgot to do this one yesterday. A day late... not a dollar short! 🤣

Klou I think being one day late is okay. I'm about 12 days late 😂😂😂🙈 11mo
TheSpineView @Klou It all works!🤩 11mo
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Did someone say boxer? Muhammad Ali just has to be the greatest boxing legend! To achieve what he did amongst the rampant racism of the time. What a great role model then, and even more after he finished with boxing and he had to battle Parkinson‘s. The world is a poorer place without him and I am not even a boxing fan!

#TheBoxer #WinterWonderland

Eggs Float like a butterfly 🦋 Sting like a bee 🐝 6y
Cinfhen Yes!!! He was a beautiful human 🙌🏻 6y
TrishB He didn‘t just fight in the ring ❤️ 6y
Andrew65 @Eggs A great phrase that will long outlive him. 6y
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"I‘ve been obsessed with Muhammad Ali since I was a kid. This book moved me from an impressionistic understanding of who he was and how he became that person, to a much more concrete one. The beauty of Ali is the more you know, the larger he looms. Read this now and imagine an 18-year-old Cassius Clay in Rome, on the verge of the first demonstration of this greatness." -- Chris Isenberg, editor-in-chief, VictoryJournal.com #funfridayphoto #sports

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