![]() ![]() With grace and power, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Remnick tells of a transcendent athlete and entertainer, a rapper before rap was born. King of the World is the story of an incredible rise to power, a book of battles fought inside the ring and out. He changed the world of sports and went on to change the world itself: from his early fights as Cassius Clay, the young, wiry man from Louisville, unwilling to play the noble and grateful warrior in a white world, to becoming Muhammad Ali, the voice of black America and the most recognized face on the planet. When Cassius Clay burst onto the sports scene in the 1950s, he broke the mould. Cassius Clay threw punches into the gray floating haze and waited for the bell. ![]() A cloud of cigar smoke drifted through the ring lights. With an introduction by Salman Rushdie and an afterword by the author. ![]()
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