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Muhammad Ali: A Tribute to the Greatest
Thomas Hauser

Pulitzer prize nominee and William Hill award-winning writer Thomas Hauser’s tribute to Ali, the greatest sporting icon the world has ever seen.

Few global personalities have commanded an all-encompassing sporting and cultural audience like Muhammad Ali. Many have tried to interpret in words his impact and legacy. 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 companion volume to his seminal biography of Ali, New York Times bestselling author Thomas Hauser provides an updated retrospective of Ali’s life. Relying on personal insights, interviews with close associates and other contemporaries of Ali, and memories gathered over the course of decades on the cutting edge of boxing journalism, Hauser explores Ali in 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 homogenise 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 sanitising his legacy is a disservice to history and to Ali himself.

Muhammad Ali: A Tribute to the Greatest strips away the revisionism to reveal the true Ali, and, through Hauser’s assembled writing and hitherto unpublished essays, recounts the life journey of a man universally recognised as a unique and treasured world icon.

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BOOKS BY THOMAS HAUSER (#u9623782f-4460-5766-89f3-d563146fc4c3)

GENERAL NON-FICTION

Missing

The Trial of Patrolman Thomas Shea

For Our Children (with Frank Macchiarola)

The Family Legal Companion

Final Warning: The Legacy of Chernobyl (with Dr Robert Gale)

Arnold Palmer: A Personal Journey

Confronting America’s Moral Crisis (with Frank Macchiarola)

Healing: A Journal of Tolerance and Understanding

With This Ring (with Frank Macchiarola)

A God to Hope For

Thomas Hauser on Sports

Reflections

BOXING NON-FICTION

The Black Lights: Inside the World of Professional Boxing

Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times

Muhammad Ali: Memories

Muhammad Ali: In Perspective

Muhammad Ali & Company

A Beautiful Sickness

A Year at the Fights

Brutal Artistry

The View from Ringside

Chaos, Corruption, Courage, and Glory

I Don’t Believe It, But It’s True

Knockout (with Vikki LaMotta)

The Greatest Sport of All

The Boxing Scene

An Unforgiving Sport

Boxing Is …

Box: The Face of Boxing

The Legend of Muhammad Ali (with Bart Barry)

Winks and Daggers

And the New …

Straight Writes and Jabs

Thomas Hauser on Boxing

A Hurting Sport

Muhammad Ali: A Tribute to the Greatest

FICTION

Ashworth & Palmer

Agatha’s Friends

The Beethoven Conspiracy

Hanneman’s War

The Fantasy

Dear Hannah

The Hawthorne Group

Mark Twain Remembers

Finding the Princess

Waiting for Carver Boyd

The Final Recollections of Charles Dickens

The Baker’s Tale

FOR CHILDREN

Martin Bear & Friends

COPYRIGHT (#u9623782f-4460-5766-89f3-d563146fc4c3)

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Portions of this book were previously published as The Lost Legacy of Muhammad Ali (Sport Classic Books) and Muhammad Ali: The Lost Legacy (Robson Books)

First published by HarperSport 2016

FIRST EDITION

© Thomas Hauser 2016

Jacket layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2016

Front jacket shows Untitled, Miami, Florida, 1970.

Photograph by Gordon Parks. Courtesy of and copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation.

A catalogue record of this book is

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Thomas Hauser asserts the moral right to

be identified as the author of this work

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Source ISBN: 9780008152444

Ebook edition: June 2016 ISBN: 9780008152468

Version: 2016-06-04

EPIGRAPH (#u9623782f-4460-5766-89f3-d563146fc4c3)

Muhammad Ali belongs to the world.

This book is dedicated to Muhammad

and to everyone who is part of his story.

CONTENTS

Cover (#u915aa5b5-8466-5299-9478-d60e134c78c5)

Title Page (#ulink_c8562a23-9bd9-5e8b-96b4-bc40f15e625c)

Books by Thomas Hauser (#ulink_44feb515-f0d8-5ff6-8fa5-50397fa8c6ae)

Copyright (#ulink_20f68c6b-8f6a-53ed-89ec-4c3b99c6ff84)

Epigraph (#ulink_86fa871f-0705-597d-b341-39b2e7ed85b6)

Author’s Note (#ulink_c8ef5e29-4119-5e70-a94c-3ad102b00c3d)

PART I: ESSAYS (#uecec47ae-ed75-5a54-aba1-4adb6b6e8194)

The Importance of Muhammad Ali (#ulink_793f1b4e-d402-53c6-851a-8ab2ce53a814)

Muhammad Ali and Boxing (#ulink_d994358d-2544-517c-9deb-f7d5d72e6f81)

Muhammad Ali and Congress Remembered (#ulink_f9acb167-340a-5262-9b2e-01aa25a9d3a2)

The Athlete of the Century (#ulink_05d53550-5538-50d3-a339-85f03ad6a9a2)