I'm A Little Special - A Muhammad Ali Reader (Paperback, New Ed)

'Here is a book littered with brilliant offerings from the finest writers in modern America - Tom Wolfe, Hunter S Thompson, George Plimpton - to remind us that Ali was a giant, not just in boxing but in life.' Jim White, Guardian 'Fighter, celebrity, draft dodger, activist, poet, victim, inspiration, champion - pick a year and choose a label. Muhammad Ali has been them all. With the excellent I'm A Little Special, Gerald Early sets out to re-introduce some perspective to the myth that has grown up around the man... Included are such notables as Hunter S Thompson, Malcolm X and Norman Mailer, plus magazine features of the day from Playboy, Esquire and the New Yorker. Articles are grouped into decades with quotes from Ali interspersed between each section as he makes his journey from Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali, from wonderboy to tired and revered icon. And through it all there are the fights, the glory and, of course, the man himself. As Davis Miller explains in My Dinner with Ali, the Champ may have slowed down a little but there is still magic in his moves. I'm A Little Special lets you in on some of that sparkle'

Total Sport 'The Muhammad Ali Reader is the greatest. I advise all my fans to read it.' Muhammad Ali