![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ali was a mirror of his era, a dynamic figure in the racial and cultural clashes of his time and King of the World is a classic piece of non-fiction and a book worthy of America's most dynamic modern hero. With grace and power, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Remnick tells of a transcendent athlete and entertainer, a rapper before rap was born. Alis biographer David Remnick noted that everything 'threatening or obscure' about the Nation of Islams teachings, including the space platform, Yakub, and racial separatism, had long been forgotten by Ali. King of the World is the story of an incredible rise to power, a book of battles fought inside the ring and out. According to Ali, 'hearts and souls have no color', and it was wrong of Elijah Muhammad to have talked of 'white devils'. ![]() He changed the world of sports and went on to change the world itself: from his early fights as Cassius Clay, the young, wiry man from Louisville, unwilling to play the noble and grateful warrior in a white world, to becoming Muhammad Ali, the voice of black America and the most recognised face on the planet. When Cassius Clay burst onto the sports scene in the 1950s, he broke the mould. Cassius Clay threw punches into the gray floating haze and waited for the bell. A cloud of cigar smoke drifted through the ring lights. Unquestionably the most exciting boxing match this reviewer ever saw was the one between. With an introduction by Salman Rushdie With a new afterword by the author It was the night of February 25, 1964. Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero. ![]()
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