![]() Remnick (Resurrection, 1997, etc.), the Pulitzer Prize winner who is now editor of the New Yorker, opens-wisely-with the September 1962 fight between Floyd Patterson and Sonny Liston. 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. A literate, intelligent evocation of the great heavyweight champion. With grace and power, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Remnick tells of a transcendent athlete and entertainer, a rapper before rap was born. King of the World is the story of an incredible rise to power, a book of battles fought inside the ring and out. 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 recognized face on the planet. King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero by Remnick, David and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at . Remnick was simply saying the vast majority of people, both black and white, bought into the idea of what a good black man was supposed to be and do. 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. With an introduction by Salman Rushdie and an afterword by the author. ![]()
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