Jonathan eig received the penespn literary sports writing award for his book titled ali. A life martin chilton daily telegraph does a remarkable job of synthesising the warring elements of ali s life. In ali, jonathan eig, a fearless reporter, as relentless on his turf as muhammad ali ever was within the ring, has taken on one of 20th century americas biggest, baddest, most important stories and told it bigger and badder than its ever been told before. The author of acclaimed books on lou gehrig and jackie robinson, eig weaves together ali s athletic feats, cultural significance and personal journey. Above all, it delivers a portrait of a hero that does not ignore his all too human flaws. Eig writes that alis willingness to take too many punches, often the result of his ropeadope strategy, declining skills and poor work habits, resulted in brain damage. He was born in brooklyn and graduated from northwestern universitys medill school of journalism.
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Eig is the author of five books, two of them new york times best sellers. Muhammad ali, beginning to end for the first time in a book. Jonathan eig is the new york times bestselling author of five books, including his most recent, ali. It is an arguable point, but ali would have had an answer. Five fascinating facts from the new muhammad ali biography. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover jonathans. The author of acclaimed books on lou gehrig and jackie robinson, eig weaves together alis athletic feats, cultural significance and personal journey. Eig had access to all the key people in alis life, including his three surviving wives and his managers. New muhammad ali biography reveals a flawed rebel who. Jonathan eig, hailed by ken burns as one of americas master storytellers, sheds important new light on alis politics, religion, personal life, and neurological condition through unprecedented access to all the key people in alis life, more than 500 interviews and thousands of pages of previously unreleased fbi and justice department files. Sep 06, 2017 the first complete, unauthorized biography of one of the twentieth centurys most fantastic figures. Muhammad ali, beginning to end for the first time in a book the. How muhammad ali reinvented fame and blackness the.
Jonathan eig, then, deserves kudos on a couple of fronts. A life, due out tuesday, comes on the heels of controversy stoked by president donald trump, who attacked nfl and nba players for taking a. Ali a life book september 7, 2017 the week muhamamd ali died, the wall street journal approached their former staff writer, jonathan eig, to write his obituary. A life is the business 640 pages of patient scholarship and intelligent reassessment written in crackly prose and dancing gleefully and illuminatingly through the welldocumented highlights while never shying away from the less glorious shadows. Now, 16 months after alis death, jonathan eigs new 623page biography is being hailed as the first book to dive deep enough into the life of this unique man boxer, olympian, world heavyweight champion, black activist, muslim, beloved icon to capture so much of his complexity.
Stunning new biography ali is the portrait a champion. Oct 04, 2017 ken burns calls jonathan eig a master storyteller. Jonathan eig born april 26, 1964 is an american journalist and the author of five books. Ali is a story about america, about race, about a brutal sport, and about a courageous man who shook up the world. Jonathan eig s ali breaks bold new ground, revealing ali in the complexity. Read jonathan eigs new book the first unauthorized biography of ali, which it should be said eig began writing well before ali passed in june 2016 and youll find the greatest had the. Sep 28, 2017 remarkably, though, jonathan eig s ali. He is a former reporter for the wall street journal. The extraordinary life of muhammad ali cannot easily be understood, and it is no failing in bestselling author jonathan eig that the reader may still fail to understand once they have finished. A life houghton mifflin harcourt, author jonathan eig conducted some 600 interviews about muhammad ali with more than 200. Sports illustrated sports book of the year alis extraordinary story, in all its complexity, is told in jonathan eigs excellent ali. Much in its pages will be familiar to those with some knowledge of boxing but even the familiar may be glimpsed from a new perspective in eigs fluent prose. For his remarkable and impossibletoputdown new book, ali.
Jonathan eig is the author of five books, three of them new york times best sellers. A life is an ambitious, clearheaded study that will go a long way toward educating the general public about who this man was, for both better and worse. In ali, jonathan eig, a fearless reporter, as relentless on his turf as muhammad ali ever was within the ring, has taken on one of twentiethcentury americas biggest, baddest, most important stories and told it bigger and badder than its ever been told before. A life, jonathan eig chronicles the epic 15round fight between muhammad ali and joe frazier at madison square garden in 1971. Dave kindred, author of nearly a dozen books, was given the pen espn lifetime achievement award.
Muhammad ali fought in the boxing ring and for his beliefs in a manner that will maintain his name in the public mind. Eig had access to all the key people in ali s life, including his three surviving wives and his managers. Nov 22, 2017 for his remarkable and impossibletoputdown new book, ali. The first complete, unauthorized biography of one of the twentieth centurys most fantastic figures. A life martin chilton daily telegraph does a remarkable job of synthesising the warring elements of alis life.
Sep 29, 2017 eig conducted more than 500 interviews for this book, examined fbi files on ali and unearthed a trove of taped interviews that ali had done with sports illustrated when he was still cassius clay. Alis extraordinary story, in all its complexity, is told in jonathan eigs excellent ali. Oct 02, 2018 jonathan eig, hailed by ken burns as one of americas master storytellers, sheds important new light on alis politics, religion, personal life, and neurological condition through unprecedented access to all the key people in alis life, more than 500 interviews and thousands of pages of previously unreleased fbi and justice department files. The latest biography of muhammad ali, surely the most writtenabout boxer in history, is also the longest, and will be among the bestselling and mostread.
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