KING OF THE WORLD - MUHAMMAD ALI AND THE RISE OF AN AMERICAN HERO
The rise of the most extraordinary athletic talent of our century-Muhammad Ali
There had been mythic sports figures before Cassius Clay, but when he burst upon the sports scene in the 1950s, he broke the mold. Those were the years when boxing and boxers were at the mercy of the mob and the whim of the sportswriters. If you wanted a shot at a title, you did it their way.
Young Clay did it his way-with little more than an Olympic gold medal to his credit, he danced into Sonny Liston's baleful view and provoked the terrifying champ into accepting him as his next challenger. The rest is history.
Muhammad Ali has become a mythic hero, an American icon, a self-invented legend. As both a mirror and a molder of his times, Ali became the most recognizable face on the planet, a key figure in the cultural battles of the times. This is the story of his self-creation, and his rise to glory, written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
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REMNICK DAVID
David Remnick 1958 es uno de los periodistas y editores más prominentes de los Estados Unidos. Desde 1998, es el director de la prestigiosa revista The New Yorker, posición desde la cual ha moldeado el discurso intelectual y cultural de Nueva York y el mundo. Bajo su liderazgo, la revista ha ganado numerosos premios Pulitzer y ha mantenido su reputación de excelencia en el periodismo de largo aliento long-form journalism , el ensayo y la crítica.
