Muhammad ali books biography recent

My life is better for having read this book - and for me it doesn’t feel dramatic, and it doesn’t feel like an exaggeration when I read this sentence back and think about it. As I write this review I’m shaking with amazement. I was so engrossed by this biography of Muhammad Ali (akin to the way I felt when reading Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk To Freedom) that at times I forgot that with each page turn I was getting closer to reading about the demise of this incredible man’s health. Muhammed Ali is so famous that despite the fact that I was not yet born when he was a professional boxer, despite the fact that I wasn’t alive during the peak of his powers, or popularity, I’d grown up hearing about him. So long before I picked up this 1991 autobiography - wonderfully written by Thomas Hauser - when I was about eighteen years old (and finally getting around to reading it), I was aware of Ali’s suffering from Parkinson’s syndrome. In fact, despite the fact that I now understand that my primary school head teacher suffered from the condition, I had never heard of Parkinson’s syndrome until I had heard of the legendary boxer. Every so often, in between the constant moments of inspiration I experienced whilst reading, I’d be overcome with

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