Ali was a mirror of his era, a dynamic figure in the racial and cultural clashes of his time and King of the World is a classic piece of non-fiction and a book worthy of America's most dynamic modern hero. No one has captured Ali-and the era that he exhilarated and sometimes infuriated-with greater vibrancy, drama, and astuteness than David Remnick, the Pulitzer. With grace and power, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Remnick tells of a transcendent athlete and entertainer, a rapper before rap was born. King of the World is the story of an incredible rise to power, a book of battles fought inside the ring and out.
He changed the world of sports and went on to change the world itself: from his early fights as Cassius Clay, the young, wiry man from Louisville, unwilling to play the noble and grateful warrior in a white world, to becoming Muhammad Ali, the voice of black America and the most recognized face on the planet. King of the World Audible Audiobook Abridged David Remnick (Author), Dick Hill (Narrator), & 1 more 369 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 14.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. David Remnick (Author) Salman Rushdie (Contributor) Salman Rushdie (Contributor) rrp 10.99 Description With an introduction by Salman Rushdie and an. King of the World is a 1998 biography of Muhammad Ali written by David Remnick with a special focus on the period in Alis life from his victory in the. When Cassius Clay burst onto the sports scene in the 1950s, he broke the mould. Cassius Clay threw punches into the gray floating haze and waited for the bell. New Yorker editor David Remnicks Pulitzer Prize-winning book, King of the World, tells the story of Muhammad Ali, originally known as Cassius Clay. A cloud of cigar smoke drifted through the ring lights. Most of all, King of the World does justice to the speed, grace, courage, humor, and ebullience of one of the greatest athletes and irresistibly dynamic personalities of our time.With an introduction by Salman Rushdie and an afterword by the author. He gives us empathetic portraits of wisecracking sportswriters and bone-breaking mobsters of the baleful Liston and the haunted Patterson of an audacious Norman Mailer and an enigmatic Malcolm X.
A master storyteller at the height of his powers.
In charting Ali's rise from the gyms of Louisville, Kentucky, to his epochal fights against Liston and Floyd Patterson, Remnick creates a canvas of unparalleled richness. KING OF THE WORLD takes us back to the days when his life was a series of battles, inside the ring and out. No one has captured Ali-and the era that he exhilarated and sometimes infuriated-with greater vibrancy, drama, and astuteness than David Remnick, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lenin's Tomb (and editor of The New Yorker).
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