Ali : a life

Title
Ali : a life

Author
Eig, Jonathan author.

ISBN
9780544435247

Physical Description
xv, 623 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents
Preface: Miami, 1964 -- Cassius Marcellus Clay -- The loudest child -- The bicycle -- "Every day was heaven" -- The prophet -- "I'm just young and don't give a damn" -- America's hero -- Dreamer -- "Twentieth-century exuberance" -- "It's show business" -- Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee -- The ugly bear -- "So what's wrong with the Muslims?" -- Becoming Muhammad Ali -- Choice -- "Girl, will you marry me?" -- Assassination -- Phantom punch -- True love -- A holy war -- No quarrel -- "What's my name?" -- "Against the furies" -- Exile -- Faith -- Martyr -- Song and dance and prayer -- The greatest book of all time -- Stand by me -- Comeback -- "The world is watching you" -- A different fighter -- The five-million-dollar match -- Ali v. Frazier -- Freedom -- Trickeration -- A fight to the finish -- Heart of darkness -- Fighter's heaven -- "Ali boma ye!" -- Rumble in the jungle -- Moving on up -- Impulses -- Ali-Frazier III -- Getting old -- "They may not let me quit" -- "Do you remember Muhammad Ali?" -- Staggered -- Crown Prince -- Old -- Humpty Dumpty -- The last hurrah -- Too many punches -- "He's human, like us" -- A torch -- The long, black Cadillac -- Postscript.

Reading Level
1090 L Lexile

Personal Subject
Ali, Muhammad, 1942-2016.

Subject Term
Boxers (Sports) -- United States -- Biography.
 
African American boxers -- Biography.
 
Parkinson's disease -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
 
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century.

Geographic Term
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.

Genre
Biographies

Summary
"Based on more than 500 interviews, including Muhammad Ali's closest associates, and enhanced by access to thousands of pages of newly released FBI records, this is a thrilling story of a man who became one of the great figures of the twentieth century."--


LibraryCall NumberStatus
Hardwood Creek Library (Forest Lake)921 ALINonfiction Collection
Oakdale Library921 ALINonfiction Collection
Park Grove Library (Cottage Grove)921 ALINonfiction Collection
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury)921 ALIChecked Out
Stillwater Public Library921 ALINonfiction Collection
Wildwood Library (Mahtomedi)921 ALINonfiction Collection