The Muhammad Ali reader / edited by Gerald Early.
Every so often, a sports figure takes American by storm, grabbing headlines and rising to superstardom in a flash of fame. But rarely does a sports figure grip the attention of the entire world- and maintain it through four decades. Muhammad Ali is such a man, arguably the finest athlete of the 20th...
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Hopewell, N.J. :
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1998.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Tales of the wonderboy / by Gerald Early
- Poet and pedagogue / A.J. Liebling
- The marvelous mouth / Tom Wolfe
- Miami notebook : Cassius Clay and Malcolm X / George Plimpton
- Views and reviews / George S. Schuyler
- Clay explodes Liston myth / Jackie Robinson
- The champ and the chump / Murray Kempton
- In the ring (2) / LeRoi Jones
- The redemption of the champion / Gordon Parks
- In defense of Cassius Clay / Floyd Patterson with Gay Talese
- In defense of Cassius Clay / Jackie Robinson
- Muhammad Ali and the little people / Irwin Shaw
- Cassius Clay is the sixties / Jimmy Cannon
- The Black scholar interviews Muhammad Ali / Muhammad Ali
- "I don't have to be what you want me to be," says Muhammad Ali / Robert Lipsyte
- Ego / Norman Mailer
- The disintegration of a folk hero / Pete Hamill
- Muhammad Ali and the fly / Ira Berkow
- Muhammad Ali, may his tribe increase / Roger Kahn
- Playboy interview : Muhammad Ali / Muhammad Ali
- Muhammad Ali / Garry Wills
- Hyperbole's child / A.B. Giamatti
- Ex-fighter's notes on the champion / Jose Torres
- Last tango in Vegas / Hunter S. Thompson
- The fourth Ali / Ishmael Reed.
- Sport interview : Muhammad Ali / Jose Torres with Muhammad Ali
- Muhammad Ali is the most famous man in the world / Bob Greene
- Muhammad Ali at the ringside, 1985 / Wole Soyinka
- My dinner with Ali / Davis Miller
- Great men die twice / Mark Kram
- The cruelest sport / Joyce Carol Oates
- Boxing Fidel / Gay Talese
- Ali's amazing grace / David Maraniss.