The greatest, my own story
(Book - Research Collections)

Everybody knows the record--the stuff of almanacs, trade magazines and clipping services. A handful know the man. But only Muhammad Ali knows his life--as he lived it. The Greatest is Ali's own story. For six years he worked, traveled and talked with Richard Durham, a writer with a stunning talent, and the result is mesmerizing in its brilliance, drama, humanity and sheer entertainment. This is no documented scrapbook of wins and losses strung together with anecdotes; nor is it a thin potpourri of locker-room gags. This book, like Ali--who has incited every reaction except indifference--goes straight to the place where responses to him have always been--the gut. -- Provided by publisher.