He appeared sleepy but in the manner of a lion digesting a carcass." Mailer describes a Foreman sighting in a hotel: "He did not look like a man so much as a lion standing erectly as a man. The larger-than-life novelist - constantly referring to himself in the third person - covers Ali's upset victory over George Forman in Zaire. "The Fight," by Norman Mailer, 1975, Vintage International, New York (Edited by Toni Morrison, the future Nobel Prize winner for literature.) Includes the legendary story about Ali throwing his Olympic gold medal into the Ohio River after a fight with a racist motorcycle gang. Like the champ himself, this is a work that blurs the line between facts and fiction. "The Greatest: My Own Story," by Muhammad Ali, with Richard Durham, 1975, Random House, New York Here's a look at some of the books about or by Muhammad Ali:
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