My Brother, Muhammad Ali

The Definitive Biography

Rahaman Ali (Author) , Fiaz Rafiq (With) , Jim Brown (Foreword)

My Brother, Muhammad Ali The Definitive Biography

Rahaman Ali (Author) , Fiaz Rafiq (With) , Jim Brown (Foreword)

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“Rahaman has, at last, written the definitive biography on his late brother, which tells the real Ali story.” —Mike Tyson

More words have been written about Muhammad Ali than almost anyone else. He was, without doubt, the world’s most-loved sportsman. At the height of his celebrity he was the most famous person in the world. And yet, until now, the one voice missing belonged to the man who knew him best—his only sibling, and best friend, Rahaman Ali.

No one was closer to Ali than Rahaman. Born Cassius and Rudolph Arnett Clay, the two brothers grew up together, lived together, trained together, travelled together, and fought together in the street and in the ring. A near-constant fixture in his sibling’s company, Rahaman saw Ali at both his best and his worst: the relentless prankster and the jealous older brother, the outspoken advocate, the husband and father. In My Brother, Muhammad Ali, Rahaman offers an insider's perspective on the well-known stories as well as never-before-told tales, painting a rich and intimate portrait of a proud, relentlessly polarizing, yet often vulnerable man.

In this extraordinary, poignant memoir, Rahaman tells a much bigger and more personal story than in any other book on Muhammad Ali—that of two brothers, almost inseparable from birth to death. It is the final and most important perspective on an iconic figure.

Foreword
Preface

Brotherhood
The Dawn of a Dream
A Brother on a Mission
Muhammad and Malcolm
War and Condemnation
Hard Times
The Great Comeback
Challenging Ali
The Outdoor Adventures
Double Trouble at Camp Deer Lake
House Party
Murder, Mafia, and Mayhem
A Step Too Far
Facing Big George
Trilogy
“I’ll Fight Anyone”: The MMA Mistake
Reuniting the Beatles
Hollywood
The Soviet Union
Turning Over a New Leaf
Business Blunders
Unusual Encounters
The Final Bell
Summer Holidays
Entertaining Stallone
Another Day, Another Dollar
Fate: From Illness to Divorce
A New Voice
Iraq
Becoming a Dad Again
A Gift of Giving
A Daughter’s Fight and the Fall of a Friend
Road to Heaven: A Life Worth Living
In Pursuit of a Better World

Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Index

Product details

Published	Oct 09 2020
Format	Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition	1st
Extent	400
ISBN	9781538142455
Imprint	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrations	49 b/w photos
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Rahaman Ali

With

Fiaz Rafiq

Foreword

Jim Brown

Rahaman Ali had a ringside seat for nearly all of his brother’s life…Yet despite the sheer volume of Ali books, Rahaman Ali succeeds in telling us things we didn’t already know about his brother, a man the Guinness Book of World Records decided in 1980 had surpassed Lincoln, Napoleon and Jesus Christ to become the most written-about figure in human history.

USA Today
Arguably no one knew Muhammad Ali better than his brother, as Rahaman Ali proves in this astute account of the world boxing champion’s life . . . instead of milking the Champ’s well-worn myth and hype, Ali offers an intimate, bittersweet remembrance. This is a great addition to the literature about one of the 20th century’s towering figures.

Publishers Weekly
[Ali and Rafiq] present intimate memories of an infamous man. Muhammad Ali’s childhood in Louisville, KY; boxing career; Muslim faith; and years in retirement are all described fully, as are the many myths and legends surrounding him—some confirmed, others debunked. Of special interest is a thorough account of Ali’s reaction to being drafted during the Vietnam War, a provocative stand that brought him further into mainstream culture. The lifelong connection between the two brothers allows the author to differentiate between Ali’s private and public personas. His exclusive observations make this an important account of Ali’s life for fans of “The Greatest,” and all readers who want to learn more about one of the 20th century’s most successful, polarizing, and, ultimately, beloved public figures. VERDICT The only sibling of Ali brings us into the boxer’s inner circle with warmth and ease.

Library Journal
There's no man like Muhammad Ali. Everything we have he supersedes us in... Rahaman, at last, has written the definitive biography on his late brother, which tells the real Ali story by a close family member.

Mike Tyson
The real life of the Great One. A real biography about Muhammad Ali by the man who knew him more/longer than anyone else... the man Ali loved more than himself, his brother.

George Foreman
Heart-warming, multi-faceted and hard-hitting. Thanks to Rahaman's powerful storytelling ability, My Brother, Muhammad Ali shares with the world a tale unlike any other biography on Muhammad Ali.

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