King of the World by David Remnick

King of the World by David Remnick

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
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.
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

David Remnick was a reporter for The Washington Post for ten years, including four in Moscow. He joined The New Yorker as a writer in 1992 and has been the magazine's editor since 1998. His most recent book is The Bridge, a biography of Barack Obama. His previous book, King of the World, a biography of Muhammad Ali, was selected by Time as the top nonfiction book of the year. Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire won a Pulitzer Prize.

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ISBN 13	9780375500657
ISBN 10	0375500650
Title	King of the World
Author	David Remnick
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1998-10-20
Number of pages	343
Prizes	Winner of ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2000, Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography) 1998
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