{"product_id":"ali-a-life","title":"Ali: A Life","description":"\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWinner of the 2018 PEN\/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWinner of The Times Sports Biography of the Year\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“As Muhammad Ali’s life was an epic of a life so\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAli: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an epic of a biography . . . pages in succession its narrative reads like a novel—a suspenseful novel with a cast of vivid characters.” – Joyce Carol Oates,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMuhammad Ali was born Cassius Clay in racially segregated Louisville, Kentucky, the son of a sign painter and a housekeeper. He went on to become a heavyweight boxer with a dazzling mix of power and speed, a warrior for racial pride, a comedian, a preacher, a poet, a draft resister, an actor, and a lover. Millions hated him when he changed his religion, changed his name, and refused to fight in the Vietnam War. He fought his way back, winning hearts, but at great cost.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e            Jonathan Eig, hailed by Ken Burns as one of America’s master storytellers, sheds important new light on Ali’s politics, religion, personal life, and neurological condition through unprecedented access to all the key people in Ali’s life, more than 500 interviews and thousands of pages of previously unreleased FBI and Justice Department files and audiotaped interviews from the 1960s. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAli: A Life\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eis a story about America, about race, about a brutal sport, and about a courageous man who shook up the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Jonathan Eig","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50602629202216,"sku":"ING-ENG-2038","price":24.07,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0950\/5983\/7224\/files\/51Eu4n1qOTL._SX403_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1767119585","url":"https:\/\/cantstore.ca\/products\/ali-a-life","provider":"CANT Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}