Muhammad Ali

Author : James Patterson
Publisher : jimmy patterson
ISBN 13 : 0316498181
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming Muhammad Ali written by James Patterson and published by jimmy patterson. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two heavy-hitters in children's literature deliver a critically acclaimed, bestselling biographical novel of cultural icon Muhammad Ali. "This utterly delightful story about Ali's childhood is a smash hit."—School Library Journal (starred review) Before he was a household name, Cassius Clay was a kid with struggles like any other. Kwame Alexander and James Patterson join forces to vividly depict his life up to age seventeen in both prose and verse, including his childhood friends, struggles in school, the racism he faced, and his discovery of boxing. Readers will learn about Cassius' family and neighbors in Louisville, Kentucky, and how, after a thief stole his bike, Cassius began training as an amateur boxer at age twelve. Before long, he won his first Golden Gloves bout and began his transformation into the unrivaled Muhammad Ali. Fully authorized by and written in cooperation with the Muhammad Ali estate, and vividly brought to life by Dawud Anyabwile's dynamic artwork, Becoming Muhammad Ali captures the budding charisma and youthful personality of one of the greatest sports heroes of all time. Longlisted for the 2022-2023 Indiana Young Hoosier Book Award, and nominated for the 2021-2022 Black Eyed Susan Book Award!

Author : Thomas Hauser
Publisher : Anova Books
ISBN 13 : 1907554904
Total Pages : 719 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times written by Thomas Hauser and published by Anova Books. This book was released on 2012-07-30 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most recognisable, respected and inspirational men on earth, Muhammad Ali is the world's most famous boxing hero. Ali brought unprecedented speed and grace to the sport, and his charm and wit changed forever what the world expects of a champion athlete. In the words of over two hundred of Ali's family members, associates, opponents, friends and enemies, this comprehensive and honest portrait relates his legendary sporting accomplishments, as well as the high drama of life outside the boxing ring. From Olympic gold in Rome, to stunning victory over George Foreman in Zaire, every historic victory and defeat of Ali's career is covered. His controversial embrace of the Nation of Islam - with the renunciation of his 'slave name', Cassius Clay - and the historic refusal to be inducted into the US Army makes for compelling reading. Ali became America's first national conscientious objector, and with a willingness to stage his fights in Third World locales, he continued his advocacy for people in need which was honoured in 2000 when he became a United Nations Messenger of Peace. Charismatic, dedicated and a skilful self-publicist, Ali is the living embodiment of the American Dream. This is the biography to match his achievements.

Author : Thomas Hauser
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681771764
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muhammad Ali: A Tribute to the Greatest written by Thomas Hauser and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stripping away the revisionism to reveal the true nature of the man himself, this new book recounts the life journey of a fighter universally recognized as a unique and treasured world icon. Few global personalities have commanded an all-encompassing sporting and cultural audience like Muhammad Ali. Many have tried to interpret his impact and legacy into words. Now, Muhammad Ali: A Tribute to the Greatest allows us to more fully appreciate the truth—and understand both the man and the ways in which he helped recalibrate how the world perceives its transcendent figures. In this celebratory volume, New York Times bestselling author Thomas Hauser provides a compelling retrospective of Ali’s life. relying on personal insights, interviews with close associates and other contemporaries, and memories gathered over the course of decades on the cutting edge of boxing journalism, Hauser explores Ali in colorful detail inside and outside the ring. Muhammad Ali has attained mythical status. But in recent years, he has been subjected to an image makeover by corporate America as it seeks to homogenize the electrifying nature of his persona. Hauser argues that there has been a deliberate distortion of what Ali believed, said, and stood for, and that making Ali more presentable for advertising purposes by sanitizing his legacy is a disservice to history as well as to Ali himself.

Author : Elliott J. Gorn
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252067211
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muhammad Ali, the People's Champ written by Elliott J. Gorn and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently recognized by Sports Illustrated as still the best-known athlete in the world, Muhammad Ali has played a fascinating role in American culture, with an influence that has reached far beyond sports. In addition to Ali the boxer, there are Ali the Black Muslim, Ali the cultural icon, Ali the anti-war protestor, Ali the telecelebrity, Ali the narcissist, and more. And it is these various incarnations -- Ali as a window onto his time, our time -- that build upon each other in this book to give us a vivid portrait of one of the greatest protagonists in the ring of public history. As the first book by scholars on the significance of his life and times, Muhammad Ali, the People's Champ is a fresh reassessment of the place of a giant sports idol and the role he has played in American history. Ali both shaped and reflected the times in which he lived. He touched the lives of people in a way unprecedented by almost any sports figure before or since. The contributors conclude that we can have no full understanding of our era without him. A volume in the series Sport and Society, edited by Benjamin G. Rader and Randy Roberts

Author : Howard L. Bingham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muhammed Ali written by Howard L. Bingham and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning portrait captured in the never-before-published work of an award-winning photographer. Combining the best elements of photo documentary, portraiture, and sports photography, Bingham captures Ali the public figure, in the ring and out, surrounded by the biggest stars of stage, screen, and sports.

Author : Carrie Golus
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 1467704032
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muhammad Ali, 2nd Edition written by Carrie Golus and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stolen bicycle led twelve-year-old Cassius Clay to his first boxing teacher. He spent endless hours training, determined that he would one day become the heavyweight champion of the world. In 1964 he beat Sonny Liston to make his prediction come true. When Ali refused to fight in the Vietnam War, his title was stripped from him, and he was banned from boxing. But just a few years later, he made an incredible comeback. Find out how Ali became one of the most popular athletes in the world.

Author : Davis Miller
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
ISBN 13 : 0804151717
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tao of Muhammad Ali written by Davis Miller and published by Three Rivers Press. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muhammad Ali is the greatest boxer the world has ever known and the most charismatic athlete of all time. Adored by millions, Ali is a role model and symbol of courage to us all. Davis Miller was a small, sickly child mourning the loss of his mother when he first encountered Ali. From this meeting, there developed a strong personal relationship that has lasted more than thirty years. Brilliantly weaving Ali's story with his own coming-of-age memoir, Miller captures the true meaning of hero worship, fathers and sons, and strength through wisdom.

Author : Kevin Mitchell
Publisher : Aurum Press
ISBN 13 : 9781781313497
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Think Like Muhammad Ali written by Kevin Mitchell and published by Aurum Press. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muhammad Ali is the most famous boxer in the history of the sport. Three-times World Champion and the thorn in the side of Vietnam-era America he became a moral beacon at a time when America was on its knees. But, for all his pronouncements, Ali rarely revealed the psychological training that went into his preparations before the fights. For the first time, Kevin Mitchell, one of the pre-eminent boxing writers of his generation, will get behind the public persona to reveal the psychological advance that Ali was able to take to the ring. Just as Dr Steve Peters has shown in the bestsellingÿThe Chimp Paradoxÿhow having a psychological advantage can pay dividends in the sporting arena as well as in everyday life, so Mitchell will show, for example, how the lessons of visualization - the art of visualizing the goal you want to achieve can be applied at a boxing match and in the boardroom. He will also show how the mental preparation that went into winning the heavyweight title three times are essential skills that can be applied to any walk of professional life.ÿ From the classic tactic of the rope-a-dope that he applied to the infamous `Rumble in the Jungle' against the favourite George Foreman, to the visualization techniques he applied to every fight - by having the Round number he was going to knock his opponent out in written on his taped hands - Mitchell will reveal how Ali can teach something to us all and how his lessons can be applied to business and personal life equally. ÿ

Author : Jonathan Eig
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544435249
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ali written by Jonathan Eig and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2017 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on more than 500 interviews, including Muhammad Ali's closest associates, and enhanced by access to thousands of pages of newly released FBI records, this is a thrilling story of a man who became one of the great figures of the twentieth century.​

Author : Muhammad Ali
Publisher : Graymalkin Media
ISBN 13 : 1631680358
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greatest: My Own Story written by Muhammad Ali and published by Graymalkin Media. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his own words, the heavyweight champion of the world pulls no punches as he chronicles the battles he faced in and out of the ring in this fascinating memoir edited by Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Toni Morrison. Growing up in the South, surrounded by racial bigotry and discrimination, Ali fought not just for a living, but also for respect and rewards far more precious than money or glory. He was named Sportsman of the Century by Sports Illustrated and the BBC. Ali redefined what it meant to be an athlete by giving hope to millions around the world and inspiring us all to fight for what is important to us. This is a multifaceted portrait of Muhammad Ali only he could render: sports legend; unapologetic anti-war advocate; outrageous showman and gracious goodwill ambassador; fighter, lover, poet, and provocateur; an irresistible force to be reckoned with. Who better to tell the tale than the man who went the distance living it?