But get used to me-black, confident, cocky my name, not yours my religion, not yours my goals, my own.
Collectively, they tell Ali’s story like never before-the story of a man who was flawed and uncertain and brave beyond belief. He conducted more than 500 interviews and uncovered thousands of pages of previously unreleased FBI and Justice Department files, as well dozens of hours of newly discovered audiotaped interviews from the 1960s. Eig had access to all the key people in Ali’s life, including his three surviving wives and his managers. Jonathan Eig, hailed by Ken Burns as one of America’s master storytellers, radically reshapes our understanding of the complicated man who was Ali. Muhammad Ali was one of the twentieth century’s most fantastic figures and arguably the most famous man on the planet.īut until now, he has never been the subject of a complete, unauthorized biography. He was the wittiest, the prettiest, the strongest, the bravest, and, of course, the greatest (as he told us himself). The definitive biography of an American icon, from a New York Times best-selling author with unique access to Ali’s inner circle
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