Login
Register
Home || Search || About us || Blog || Contact us || Other book sites

Name: Sound and Fury

Author: Dave Kindred
Year: 2006
Rank:

Rating:

Original Rating:

Popularity: 1.1
Genres/categories: Sports, Biographies, Non Fiction

Purchase/research links:
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.
Similar books:

Muhammad Ali
by Thomas Hauser

A Flame of Pure Fire
by Roger Kahn

The Greatest
by Muhammad Ali

King of the World
by David Remnick

The Devil and Sonny Liston
by Nick Tosches

Ghosts of Manila
by Mark Kram

Unforgivable Blackness
by Geoffrey C. Ward

The Soul of a Butterfly
by Muhammad Ali

Four Kings
by George Kimball

Muhammad Ali
by Jonah Winter

Cinderella Man
by Jeremy Schaap

The Greatest
by Walter Dean Myers

The Duck Commander Family
by Willie Robertson

To Selena, with Love
by Chris Perez

The Life and Legend of Chris Kyle
by Michael J. Mooney

The Women of Duck Commander
by Kay Robertson

A Lion's Tale
by Chris Jericho

Winning Ugly
by Brad Gilbert

Shadow of the Almighty
by Elisabeth Elliot

Racing Through the Dark
by David Millar