Muhammad Ali, Thomas Hauser
Muhammad Ali, Thomas Hauser
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Muhammad Ali
A Tribute to the Greatest

Author: Thomas Hauser

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Unabridged: 7 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/01/2016


Synopsis

Stripping away the revisionism to reveal the true nature of the man himself, this new book recounts the life journey of a fighter universally recognized as a unique and treasured world icon. Few global personalities have commanded an all-encompassing sporting and cultural audience like Muhammad Ali. Now, Muhammad Ali: A Tribute to the Greatest allows us to more fully appreciate the truth—and understand both the man and the ways in which he helped recalibrate how the world perceives its transcendent figures. In this celebratory volume, New York Times bestselling author Thomas Hauser provides a compelling retrospective of Ali’s life. Relying on personal insights, interviews with close associates and other contemporaries, and memories gathered over the course of decades on the cutting edge of boxing journalism, Hauser explores Ali in colorful detail inside and outside the ring.Muhammad Ali has attained mythical status. But in recent years, he has been subjected to an image makeover by corporate America as it seeks to homogenize the electrifying nature of his persona. Hauser argues that there has been a deliberate distortion of what Ali believed, said, and stood for, and that making Ali more presentable for advertising purposes by sanitizing his legacy is a disservice to history as well as to Ali himself.

Author Bio

Thomas Hauser is the author of forty-eight books on subjects ranging from professional boxing to Beethoven. His first novel Missing was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Hauser wrote Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He currently lives in Manhattan.

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