Sound and Fury, Dave Kindred
Sound and Fury, Dave Kindred
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Sound and Fury
Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship

Author: Dave Kindred

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 12 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 01/01/2006

Synopsis

A 2007 Audie Award NomineeOne of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2006Muhammed Ali and Howard Cosell, a legendary athlete and a television icon, were individually interesting, but together they were mesmerizing. They were profoundly different—young and old, black and white, a Muslim and a Jew, Ali barely literate, Cosell an editor of his university’s law review. Yet they had in common forces that made them unforgettable. Both were unprecedented performers who covered enormous insecurities by demanding, loudly and often, public acclaim.Theirs was an extraordinary alliance that produced drama, comedy, controversy, and a mutual respect that helped shape both men’s lives. Dave Kindred draws on his experiences with Ali and Cosell over nearly four decades, as well as new reporting and interviews, to break new ground in our understanding of these two giants who changed sports and television forever.

About Dave Kindred

Dave Kindred, author of several books, has been a columnist for the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Washington Post, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the National Sports Daily, Sporting News, and Golf Digest. He is one of only two writers who have earned sportswriting's three highest honors: the Red Smith Award, the PEN America ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing, and the Dan Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting. He also has won the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame's Curt Gowdy Award for outstanding media contributions, as well as a National Headliner Award for general-interest columns. He is a member of The National Sports Media Hall of Fame.

About Dick Hill

Dick Hill was one of the most awarded narrators in the business. We was named by AudioFile magazine as a Golden Voice and also as a Voice of the Century. He earned several of the prestigious annua Audie Awards for Best Narration and thirty-four AudioFile Earphones Awards. In addition to narrating, he both acted in and wrote for the theater. He passed away in 2022.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Adam

If you were a small boy as I was in the early to mid-seventies, Howard Cosell and Muhammad Ali were larger than life, twin towering giants who formed you and made your ears perk and your eyes grow wide with awe. They made your boy heart jump with excitement. Together - and apart, they made you what......more

Goodreads review by Steven

I don’t know if there is a more interesting figure of the Twentieth Century than Ali and there is certainly not one that I find more compelling to read about. This book is a biography not only of Ali, but also of Howard Cosell, the man forever linked with Ali. Although there was not a whole lot new......more

Goodreads review by Will

If you are a fan of Ali or of Cosell... or just plain sports broadcasting or writing you will enjoy this book. You may think you have heard it all when it comes to these two men... I fall into that category myself. However this book enlightened and exposed me to details about both and filled in so m......more

Goodreads review by Tom

In this dual biography, the largeness and significance of The Greatest eclipses that of commentator and fan Cosell. Ali's rush to join the military to be stopped by entry written tests and then refusal to be inducted later becomes one of the many acts of an Ali as marionette to Nation of Islam's Eli......more

Quotes

“Loaded with color, ribaldry, and ego…Hill’s performance [brings] rollicking entertainment value.” AudioFile

“[No other book] shows so effectively how each man helped create the legend surrounding the other.” Publishers Weekly

“This book has it all: a great idea, the perfect writer, and two extraordinary characters”  David Maraniss, author of When Pride Still Mattered 

“This is a book that needs to be read and reread to appreciate just how good it is.”  John Feinstein, author of Caddy for Life and Last Dance 

“Room should be made for this approachable, touching, and altogether fascinating buddy comedy.” Booklist

Awards

  • AudioFile Best Audiobook of the Year
  • Audie Award Finalist
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