Ali: A Life
Written by Jonathan Eig
Narrated by Kevin R. Free
4.5/5
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Editor's Note
Legendary…
This intimate look at the legendary boxing champ’s life won the 2018 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. Judges called it “a beautifully-written, transcendent biography that renders vivid in every stage of a remarkable life: Ali the brash teenager, Ali the proud Muslim, Ali the conscientious objector — and then: Ali the warrior, the man of peace, and finally the icon.”
Jonathan Eig
Jonathan Eig is a former senior writer for The Wall Street Journal. He is the New York Times bestselling author of several books, including Ali: A Life, Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig, and Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season. Ken Burns calls him "a master storyteller," and Eig's books have been listed among the best of the year by The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Sports Illustrated, and Slate. He lives in Chicago with his wife and children.
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46 ratings5 reviews
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A beautiful story of a beautiful soul. He truly was The Greatest.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It’s a good read about the life of the champ. Never realized how generous he was.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent book and well read
Always had me captivated and interested - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book does an awesome job of painting Ali in all his glory and all his flaws. A great read.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wow. The book was hard to finish because I was in tears. Ali was an American hero. He wasn't without faults. He fell in with the wrong crowd (multiple times, it seems). He never learned to control his sexual appetite. But he transcended his youth, he stood up for what he believed, he dared to dream of greatness, he was kind.I would have given the book 5 stars except that I was not interested in the blow-by-blow boxing commentary on each fight. I'm sure there are many, many readers who will give it the extra star.