Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HAVE TO understand that 1) Muhammad Ali is the public figure whom I most admire and 2) The Greatest was the only book I've read in my three years at Harvard that I wasn't able to put down...
...approached the book with some trepidation. Most autobiographies of athletes that I've read tend too often to be shallow, publicity-seeking, sensationalistic narratives, and I was fearful that Ali too would let me down. He didn...
There were two early tipoffs that this wasn't going to be your run-of-the-mill sports hype. There are no pictures in the book ("What, no pictures?!" my roommate exclaimed as he leafed through the 413-page volume). And Ali begins the book by talking about his loss to Ken Norton, instead of starting out with a victory...
...ring parlance, there are no holds barred, no punches pulled. Ali is honest, not only about the personalities whom he encounters on his journey to become heavyweight champion of the world, but, more significantly, about himself as well...
Jawaharlal Nehru, Hindu leader of India's Congress Party and the first native Prime Minister, is also warmly praised for his Brahman sensitivity. The villain of the book is Mohammed Ali Jinnah, fanatical leader of the Moslem League, who demands the separate state of Pakistan for his people. "We shall have India divided," he warns, "or we shall have India destroyed...