Name: Ali: A Life (in English)
Price: 15.39 USD
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Author: Jonathan Eig
ISBN: 9781328505699

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jonathan Eig

Publisher

Mariner Books

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

672

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.0 x 4.1 cm

Weight

0.66 kg.

ISBN13

9781328505699

Synopsis "Ali: A Life (in English)"

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the 2018 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing Winner of The Times Sports Biography of the Year The definitive biography of an American icon, from a best-selling author with unique access to Ali's inner circle. "As Muhammad Ali's life was an epic of a life so Ali: A Life is an epic of a biography . . . for pages in succession its narrative reads like a novel--a suspenseful novel with a cast of vivid characters." -- Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times Book ReviewMuhammad Ali was born Cassius Clay in racially segregated Louisville, Kentucky, the son of a sign painter and a housekeeper. He went on to become a heavyweight boxer with a dazzling mix of power and speed, a warrior for racial pride, a comedian, a preacher, a poet, a draft resister, an actor, and a lover. Millions hated him when he changed his religion, changed his name, and refused to fight in the Vietnam War. He fought his way back, winning hearts, but at great cost.Jonathan Eig, hailed by Ken Burns as one of America's master storytellers, sheds important new light on Ali's politics, religion, personal life, and neurological condition through unprecedented access to all the key people in Ali's life, more than 500 interviews and thousands of pages of previously unreleased FBI and Justice Department files and audiotaped interviews from the 1960s. Ali: A Life is a story about America, about race, about a brutal sport, and about a courageous man who shook up the world.

Jonathan Eig

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Es autor de varios libros, incluidos dos bestsellers muy aclamados, Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig y Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's. Ha publicado autobiografías y obras de no ficción. Ha escrito varios libros que exploran figuras prominentes de la historia y eventos significativos en el mundo del deporte y la sociedad. Es conocido por su estilo de escritura accesible y su capacidad para contar historias complejas de manera cautivadora. Ganó el Premio Pulitzer de biografía en 2024 con su libro King. The life of Martin Luther King.

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