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Product Identifiers
PublisherFree Press
ISBN-100743262115
ISBN-139780743262118
eBay Product ID (ePID)48249966
Product Key Features
Book TitleSound and Fury : Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2006
TopicBoxing, History, Sports
IllustratorYes
GenreSports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorDave Kindred
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height9.1 in
Item Weight19.2 Oz
Item Length1.3 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2005-055217
Reviews"The best books combine a compelling story, superb reporting, and wonderful writing. In Sound and Fury, Dave Kindred has produced all three elements. This is a book that needs to be read and reread to appreciate just how good it is."-- John Feinstein, author of Caddy for Life and Last Dance, "I love Muhammad Ali, and I absolutely love this book. It portrays Ali at his most glorious, most flawed, and most heroic. Dave Kindred's "Sound and Fury" will be the classic Ali biography for generations to come. Plus, there's Howard Cosell agitatin'. What could be more fun?"-- Michael Wilbon, cohost of ESPN's "Pardon the Interruption", "Cosell and Ali: it's impossible to think of one without the other. This dynamic look at two outsized personalities is as unique as was their relationship. Ali and Cosell created a form of synergy that transformed the world they dominated. But the triumph here is Kindred's. His prose floats like a butterfly. His reporting, telling it like it is, stings like a bee. Kindred by a knockout."-- Jane Leavy, author of "Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy" and "Squeeze Play", "I love Muhammad Ali, and I absolutely love this book. It portrays Ali at his most glorious, most flawed, and most heroic. Dave Kindred's Sound and Fury will be the classic Ali biography for generations to come. Plus, there's Howard Cosell agitatin'. What could be more fun?"-- Michael Wilbon, cohost of ESPN's Pardon the Interruption, "In this terrific book, Dave Kindred has not only invented a new form, he has set the platinum standard. Even things I thought I knew about Cosell and Ali are richer here. "Sound and Fury" is a shrewd, hilarious, and eventually heartbreaking journey into the nooks and crannies of their lives, surprising even for me, and I was there."-- Robert Lipsyte, author of "The Contender" and "The Brave", "Cosell and Ali: it's impossible to think of one without the other. This dynamic look at two outsized personalities is as unique as was their relationship. Ali and Cosell created a form of synergy that transformed the world they dominated. But the triumph here is Kindred's. His prose floats like a butterfly. His reporting, telling it like it is, stings like a bee. Kindred by a knockout."-- Jane Leavy, author of Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy and Squeeze Play, "This book has it all: a great idea, the perfect writer, and two extraordinary characters--Ali and Cosell--whose interconnected lives changed the way we think about sports and society."-- David Maraniss, author of When Pride Still Mattered, "The best books combine a compelling story, superb reporting, and wonderful writing. In "Sound and Fury," Dave Kindred has produced all three elements. This is a book that needs to be read and reread to appreciate just how good it is."-- John Feinstein, author of "Caddy for Life" and "Last Dance", "In this terrific book, Dave Kindred has not only invented a new form, he has set the platinum standard. Even things I thought I knew about Cosell and Ali are richer here. Sound and Fury is a shrewd, hilarious, and eventually heartbreaking journey into the nooks and crannies of their lives, surprising even for me, and I was there."-- Robert Lipsyte, author of The Contender and The Brave, "This book has it all: a great idea, the perfect writer, and two extraordinary characters--Ali and Cosell--whose interconnected lives changed the way we think about sports and society."-- David Maraniss, author of "When Pride Still Mattered"
Table Of ContentCONTENTS Author's Note Prologue: They Charmed and Bedeviled Us PART ONE: DREAMING 1. "Bound Together By a Common Sympathy" 2. "America Was in Everybody's Mouth" 3. "You Got a Little Joe Louis There" 4. "Liston is a Tramp, I'm the Champ" 5. "The Black Man's White Man" 6. "I Don't Have to Be What You Want Me to Be" 7. "I Ain't Got Nothing Against Them Viet Cong" PART TWO: CLIMBING 8. "We Don't Want to Live With the White Man" 9. "Tel-e-VISION!" 10. "You'll Never Really Know Him" PART THREE: AT THE TOP 11. "God Knows the World Wants Me to Win" 12. "I'm the Only One Who Can Tell It" 13. "I Ain't Gonna Wind Up Like Malcolm X" 14. "A Twentieth-Century Torture Device" 15. "You Know You Need Me More Than I Need You" PART FOUR: FALLING 16. "You Feelin' Any Pain, Joe, Feelin' Any Pain?" 17. "I Know Who I Am" 18. "Mother Cosell, Saving Us All From Prostitution" 19. "I'd Rather Be Punished Here Than in the Hereafter" 20. "Your Unconquerable Soul" 21. "The World's Waiting For Me" 22. "You Stood Up and Told the Truth" PART FIVE: RISING 23. "He's America's Only Living Saint" Epilogue: "The Alpha and the Omega" Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
SynopsisThis unprecedented biography of the relationship between Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell reveals how the pair made the wide world of sports as sensational as their larger-than-life personalities. of photos., Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell were must-see TV long before that phrase became ubiquitous. Individually interesting, together they were mesmerizing. They were profoundly different -- young and old, black and white, a Muslim and a Jew, Ali barely literate and Cosell an editor of his university's law review. Yet they had in common forces that made them unforgettable: Both were, above all, performers who covered up their deep personal insecurities by demanding -- loudly and often -- public acclaim. Theirs was an extraordinary alliance that produced drama, comedy, controversy, and a mutual respect that helped shape both men's lives. Dave Kindred -- uniquely equipped to tell the Ali-Cosell story after a decades-long intimate working relationship with both men -- re-creates their unlikely connection in ways never before attempted. From their first meeting in 1962 through Ali's controversial conversion to Islam and refusal to be inducted into the U.S. Army (the right for him to do both was publicly defended by Cosell), Kindred explores both the heroics that created the men's upward trajectories and the demons that brought them to sadness in their later lives. Kindred draws on his experiences with Ali and Cosell, fresh reporting, and interviews with scores of key personalities -- including the families of both. In the process, Kindred breaks new ground in our understanding of these two unique men. The book presents Ali not as a mythological character but as a man in whole, and it shows Cosell not in caricature but in faithful scale. With vivid scenes, poignant dialogue, and new interpretations of historical events, this is a biography that is novelistically engrossing -- a richly evocative portrait of the friendship that shaped two giants and changed sports and television forever.
LC Classification NumberGV1131 .K56 2006
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- 24. Mär. 2020
Ali and Cosell
This is a good read if you have any interest in that era of sports broadcasting and the relationship between Ali and Cosell.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
