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Hauser compiles opinions from a wide-ranging roster of interviewees to create a portrait of the controversial boxing champ that bristles with insights, jabs and tributes. Photos.
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The New York Times Book Review

The first definitive biography of...the boxer who transcended sports as no other athlete ever has.

Budd Schulberg

Chicago Tribune

How many Muhammad Ali's have we seen during his tempestuous ride through 30 years of roller-coaster American history? Ali rode that roller coaster with zest and pride and humor and class.

Publishers Weekly

A feast for fans, this composite portrait bristles with insights, jabs, and tributes.

The Sporting News

Compelling...I doubt that we shall ever see a more comprehensive portrait of this extraordinary athlete.

Los Angeles Sentinel

This is by far the best book ever written about Muhammad Ali, and one of the best ever written about a celebrity-entertainment-controversial figure....It gets inside "the real Muhammad."

The Nation

A new generation is about to rediscover this exemplar of the Zeitgeist of the 1960s....The awesome pressures mortals can't imagine...were somehow converted into motivation by Ali. And this comprehensive, poignant and knowing book is sure to be a catalyst of his coming renaissance....Ali was bigger than boxing, and so is this book.

New York Post

Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times is a measuring stick for at least three decades of America -- who we were, how we changed and what we became.

New York Daily News

Extensive and fascinating detail; first-rate....The triumph of the "witness" technique in biography may be judged complete.

The Boston Globe

A magnificent book [about] a life that needs to be understood whether you care a whit about boxing or not.

National Public Radio

You're liable to find Muhammad Ali in the sports section of your bookstore, and that's certainly one place it belongs. Ali was a massive presence in sports for decades. But this book should be in the biography section as well, because like all good biography, it teaches us something about what it means to try to make a meaningful life in this slippery world. And it should be in the history section, because Ali has been a force in contemporary events second to no American.

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Each day at 5:00 A. M., a forty-nine-year-old man rises from bed on a small farm in Berrien Springs, Michigan. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
big ugly bear, state athletic commission, refusing induction, fourteenth round, ring career, fifteenth round, gonna whup, day before the fight, eleventh round, heavyweight champion, third fight, heavyweight division Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Muhammad Ali, Cassius Clay, United States, Elijah Muhammad, New York, Howard Bingham, Joe Frazier, Sonny Liston, Joe Louis, George Foreman, Herbert Muhammad, Nation of Islam, Don King, Larry Holmes, Los Angeles, Angelo Dundee, Ferdie Pacheco, Madison Square Garden, Jack Johnson, Deer Lake, Bob Arum, Howard Cosell, Sports Illustrated, Archie Moore, Martin Luther King New!
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