King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero PDF
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Acclaim for David Remnick’s KING OF THE WORLD “Remnick brings to his reading of the Ali scriptures a helpful sense of recent boxing history, inseparable from political history.… It doesn’t read like the case history of the man (though the man is here in living colors, sometimes funny as hell), but of a comic and cosmic superman.” —Budd Schulberg, The New York Times Book Review “It may prove to be a classic.… Beautifully reported, compelling.” —New York Daily News “Of the many books about Ali, [this] seems the closest to … illuminat[ing] the complexities of the man.” —The Washington Post Book World “Deftly told … a clear, well-written portrait.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Remnick shines a brilliant light on the myth and the man.” —Elle “An engrossing and important book.… The fight scenes are absolutely riveting—written with an excitement and an immediacy that only someone who loves his subject can consistently pull off.” —National Review David Remnick David Remnick was a reporter for The Washington Post for ten years, including four in Moscow. He joined The New Yorker as a writer in 1992 and has been the magazine’s editor since 1998. Books by David Remnick Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire The Devil Problem and Other True Stories Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia King of the World FIRST VINTAGE EBOOKS EDITION, OCTOBER 1999 Copyright © 1998 by David Remnick All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC, New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, Penguin Random House companies. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Random House LLC, New York, in 1998. Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House LLC. Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material: James Baldwin Estate: Excerpt from “The Fight: Patterson vs. Liston” by James Baldwin, originally published in Nugget. Copyright © 1963 by James Baldwin. Copyright renewed. Reprinted by arrangement with the James Baldwin Estate. / Playboy: Excerpt from “The Playboy Interview: Cassius Clay” (October 1964). Copyright © 1964 by Playboy; excerpt from “The Playboy Interview: Muhammad Ali” (November 1975). Copyright © 1975 by Playboy. Reproduced by special permission of Playboy magazine. / Simon and Schuster: Excerpts From Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times by Thomas Hauser. Copyright © 1991 by Thomas Hauser and Muhammad Ali. Reprinted by permission of Simon and Schuster. / Gay Talese: Excerpt From “The Loser” by Gay Talese. Originally published in Esquire magazine. Copyright © 1962 by Gay Talese. Excerpt from “In Defense of Cassius Clay” by Gay Talese. Originally published in Esquire magazine. Copyright © 1966 by Gay Talese. All excerpts reprinted by permission of the author. / The Wylie Agency: Excerpt from “Ten Thousand Words a Minute” by Norman Mailer. Copyright © 1963 by Norman Mailer, first printed in Esquire magazine. Reprinted with the permission of The Wylie Agency. eBook ISBN: 978-0-80417362-9 Frontispiece photograph by Howard L. Bingham www.vintagebooks.com Cover design by John Gall Cover image © Chris Smith/Getty Images v3.1 For my brother, Richard, and for my friend Eric Lewis CONTENTS Cover About the Author Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Dedication Prologue: In Michigan PART ONE ONE Underground Man TWO Two Minutes, Six Seconds THREE Mr. Fury and Mr. Gray FOUR Stripped PART TWO FIVE The Bicycle Thief SIX Twentieth-Century Exuberance SEVEN Secrets EIGHT Hype PART THREE NINE The Cross and the Crescent TEN Bear Hunting ELEVEN “Eat Your Words!” TWELVE The Changeling PART FOUR THIRTEEN “Save Me, Joe Louis …” FOURTEEN Gunfire FIFTEEN The Anchor Punch SIXTEEN What’s in a Name? Epilogue: Old Men by the Fire
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