Muhammad Ali: A Tribute to the Greatest
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Muhammad Ali: A Tribute to the Greatest

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Muhammad Ali: A Tribute to the Greatest

About this book

Pulitzer prize nominee and William Hill award-winning writer Thomas Hauser’s tribute to Ali, the greatest sporting icon the world has ever seen.

Few global personalities have commanded an all-encompassing sporting and cultural audience like Muhammad Ali. Many have tried to interpret in words his impact and legacy. 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 companion volume to his seminal biography of Ali, New York Times bestselling author Thomas Hauser provides an updated retrospective of Ali’s life. Relying on personal insights, interviews with close associates and other contemporaries of Ali, and memories gathered over the course of decades on the cutting edge of boxing journalism, Hauser explores Ali in 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 homogenise 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 sanitising his legacy is a disservice to history and to Ali himself.

Muhammad Ali: A Tribute to the Greatest strips away the revisionism to reveal the true Ali, and, through Hauser’s assembled writing and hitherto unpublished essays, recounts the life journey of a man universally recognised as a unique and treasured world icon.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Books by Thomas Hauser
  3. Copyright
  4. Epigraph
  5. Contents
  6. Author’s Note
  7. PART I: ESSAYS
  8. The Importance of Muhammad Ali
  9. Muhammad Ali and Boxing
  10. Muhammad Ali and Congress Remembered
  11. The Athlete of the Century
  12. Why Muhammad Ali Went to Iraq
  13. The Olympic Flame
  14. Ali as Diplomat: ‘No! No! No! Don’t!’
  15. Ghosts of Manila
  16. Rediscovering Joe Frazier through Dave Wolf’s Eyes
  17. A Holiday Season Fantasy
  18. Muhammad Ali: A Classic Hero
  19. Elvis and Ali
  20. PART II: PERSONAL MEMORIES
  21. The Day I Met Muhammad Ali
  22. I Was at Ali–Frazier I
  23. Reflections on Time Spent with Muhammad Ali
  24. ‘I’m Coming Back to Whup Mike Tyson’s Butt’
  25. Muhammad Ali at Notre Dame: A Night to Remember
  26. Muhammad Ali: Thanksgiving 1996 – ‘I’ve Got a Lot to Be Thankful For’
  27. Pensacola, Florida: 27 February 1997
  28. A Day of Remembrance
  29. Remembering Joe Frazier
  30. ‘Did Barbra Streisand Whup Sonny Liston?’
  31. PART III: A LIFE IN QUOTES
  32. PART IV: LEGACY
  33. The Lost Legacy of Muhammad Ali
  34. The Long Sad Goodbye
  35. Muhammad Ali’s Ring Record
  36. About the Publisher