![]() ![]() ![]() Muhammad Ali is our black Paul Bunyan, except that Bunyan's superhuman exploits were fables and Ali's are real. Hometown ring and already pronounces himself the Greatest? How does one respond to a 12-year-old who wins a split decision in a dinky Motormouth equaled the speed of his gloved hands and booted feet, and whose mind - before he was even in his teens - was aflame with his dreams of glory. N this reviewer's library are no fewer than 16 books on the singular life, boxing career and now spiritual journey of the once-brash Louisville amateur whose Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero. Muhammad Ali, Pictures from the Archives of the New York Times, 1960-1998(11.David Remnick describes how a kid from Louisville became the athlete of the century. ![]()
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