{"product_id":"ali-a-life-9781328505699","title":"Ali: A Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2018 PEN\/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing \u003cbr\u003e Winner of The Times Sports Biography of the Year \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"As Muhammad Ali's life was an epic of a life so \u003ci\u003eAli: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e is an epic of a biography . . . pages in succession its narrative reads like a novel--a suspenseful novel with a cast of vivid characters.\" - Joyce Carol Oates, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Muhammad Ali was born Cassius Clay in racially segregated Louisville, Kentucky, the son of a sign painter and a housekeeper. He went on to become a heavyweight boxer with a dazzling mix of power and speed, a warrior for racial pride, a comedian, a preacher, a poet, a draft resister, an actor, and a lover. Millions hated him when he changed his religion, changed his name, and refused to fight in the Vietnam War. He fought his way back, winning hearts, but at great cost. \u003cbr\u003e Jonathan Eig, hailed by Ken Burns as one of America's master storytellers, sheds important new light on Ali's politics, religion, personal life, and neurological condition through unprecedented access to all the key people in Ali's life, more than 500 interviews and thousands of pages of previously unreleased FBI and Justice Department files and audiotaped interviews from the 1960s. \u003ci\u003eAli: A Life \u003c\/i\u003eis a story about America, about race, about a brutal sport, and about a courageous man who shook up the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mariner Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/02\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781328505699\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 672\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.60d","brand":"Jonathan Eig","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36648988901532,"sku":"9781328505699","price":19.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_7fee443b-d1d2-42ac-8452-c7b99b986cb8.jpg?v=1603871665","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/ali-a-life-9781328505699","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}