Table of Contents
Preface: Miami, 1964 ix
Part I
1 Cassius Marcellus Clay 3
2 The Loudest Child 7
3 The Bicycle 20
4 "Every Day Was Heaven" 29
5 The Prophet 44
6 "I'm Just Young and Don't Give a Damn" 53
7 America's Hero 60
8 Dreamer 68
9 "Twentieth-Century Exuberance" 86
10 "It's Show Business" 96
11 Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee 113
12 The Ugly Bear 128
13 "So What's Wrong with the Muslims?" 133
14 Becoming Muhammad Ali 152
15 Choice 164
16 "Girl, Will You Marry Me?" 170
17 Assassination 179
18 Phantom Punch 187
19 True Love 193
20 A Holy War 202
21 No Quarrel 211
22 "What's My Name?" 220
23 "Against the Furies" 228
Part II
24 Exile 237
25 Faith 242
26 Martyr 252
27 Song and Dance and Prayer 266
28 The Greatest Book of All Time 275
29 Stand by Me 279
30 Comeback 285
31 "The World Is Watching You" 297
32 A Different Fighter 299
33 The Five-Million-Dollar Match 306
34 Ali v. Frazier 313
35 Freedom 321
36 Trickeration 335
Part III
37 A Fight to the Finish 351
38 Heart of Darkness 361
39 Fighter's Heaven 370
40 "Ali Boma Ye!" 380
41 Rumble in the Jungle 392
42 Moving on Up 403
43 Impulses 415
44 Ali-Frazier III 425
45 Getting Old 431
46 "They May Not Let Me Quit" 435
47 "Do You Remember Muhammad Ali?" 446
48 Staggered 453
49 Crown Prince 459
50 Old 466
51 Humpty Dumpty 475
52 The Last Hurrah 490
53 Too Many Punches 499
54 "He's Human, Like Us" 509
55 A Torch 520
56 The Long, Black Cadillac 526
Postscript 538
Acknowledgments 540
Notes 543
Appendix: Career Record 605
Index 608