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ISBN
9780375702297
Book Title
King of the World : Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Length
8 in
Publication Year
1999
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.7 in
Author
David Remnick
Genre
Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
Topic
Boxing, Sports, Olympics & Paralympics
Item Weight
12.6 Oz
Item Width
5.1 in
Number of Pages
352 Pages

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375702296
ISBN-13
9780375702297
eBay Product ID (ePID)
370682

Product Key Features

Book Title
King of the World : Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Boxing, Sports, Olympics & Paralympics
Publication Year
1999
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
Author
David Remnick
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
12.6 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
98-024539
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"By now we all have our notions about what Ali meant -- to his time and to the history of his sport. Of course David Remnick sheds light on these subjects, but where King of the World really shines is in the ring itself. With telling detail, Remnick captures the drama, danger, beauty, and ugliness of a generation's worth of big heavyweight fights." -- Bob Costa "Succeeds more than any previous book in bringing Ali into focus . . . as a starburst of energy, ego and ability whose like will never be seen again." -- The Wall Street Journal "Best Nonfiction Book of the Year" -- Time "Penetrating . . . reveal[s] details that even close followers of [Ali] might not have known. . . . An amazing story." -- The New York Times "Nearly pulse-pounding narrative power . . . an important account of a period in American social history." -- Chicago Tribune "A pleasure . . . haunting . . . so vivid that one can imagine Ali saying, 'How'd you get inside my head, boy?'" --Wilfrid Sheed,  Time , "By now we all have our notions about what Ali meant -- to his time and to the history of his sport. Of course David Remnick sheds light on these subjects, but where King of the World really shines is in the ring itself. With telling detail, Remnick captures the drama, danger, beauty, and ugliness of a generation's worth of big heavyweight fights." -- Bob Costa From the Hardcover edition.
Dewey Decimal
796.8/3/092
Synopsis
The bestselling biography of Muhammad Ali--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., The bestselling biography of Muhammad Ali--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.
LC Classification Number
GV1132.A44
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