The Greatest: My Own Story
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Before he was a legend, he was Cassius Clay — a brash, beautiful boy from Louisville, Kentucky, who would remake himself and the world around him into something wholly unprecedented. The Greatest: My Own Story is Muhammad Ali's definitive autobiography, a first-person chronicle of one of the twentieth century's most electrifying lives, written with journalist Richard Durham, that carries the reader from his humble beginnings through his rise to heavyweight champion, his conversion to Islam, his monumental refusal of the Vietnam draft, and his triumphant return to the ring. More than a sports memoir, this is a testament to conviction, identity, and the price of standing firm in the face of an entire nation's hostility. Ali's voice — boastful, poetic, and searingly honest — leaps from every page, presenting a portrait of a man who understood that the fight outside the ring was always the more consequential one. His story remains as urgent and defiant today as when he first told it, leaving the reader to wonder: what does it truly cost a man to be, unapologetically, the greatest?
Author: Muhammad Ali
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Before he was a legend, he was Cassius Clay — a brash, beautiful boy from Louisville, Kentucky, who would remake himself and the world around him into something wholly unprecedented. The Greatest: My Own Story is Muhammad Ali's definitive autobiography, a first-person chronicle of one of the twentieth century's most electrifying lives, written with journalist Richard Durham, that carries the reader from his humble beginnings through his rise to heavyweight champion, his conversion to Islam, his monumental refusal of the Vietnam draft, and his triumphant return to the ring. More than a sports memoir, this is a testament to conviction, identity, and the price of standing firm in the face of an entire nation's hostility. Ali's voice — boastful, poetic, and searingly honest — leaps from every page, presenting a portrait of a man who understood that the fight outside the ring was always the more consequential one. His story remains as urgent and defiant today as when he first told it, leaving the reader to wonder: what does it truly cost a man to be, unapologetically, the greatest?