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Learn moreA 2007 Audie Award NomineeOne of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2006
Muhammed Ali and Howard Cosell, a legendary athlete and a television icon, were individually interesting, but together they were mesmerizing. They were profoundly different—young and old, black and white, a Muslim and a Jew, Ali barely literate, Cosell an editor of his university’s law review. Yet they had in common forces that made them unforgettable. Both were unprecedented performers who covered enormous 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 draws on his experiences with Ali and Cosell over nearly four decades, as well as new reporting and interviews, to break new ground in our understanding of these two giants who changed sports and television forever.
Dave Kindred, author of several books, received the PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing for “his riveting storytelling and spare language and a quarter century of contribution to the canon of sports writing” He has been a newspaper and magazine columnist for thirty-seven years. His newspaper work for the Washington Post and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution earned three nominations for the Pulitzer Prize. He was awarded the 1991 Red Smith Award for lifetime achievement in sports journalism.
Dick Hill, named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, is one of the most awarded narrators in the business, having earned several Audie Awards and thirty-four AudioFile Earphones Awards. In addition to narrating, he has both acted in and written for the theater.
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“This book has it all: a great idea, the perfect writer, and two extraordinary characters”
“This is a book that needs to be read and reread to appreciate just how good it is.”
“Loaded with color, ribaldry, and ego…Hill’s performance [brings] rollicking entertainment value.”
“[No other book] shows so effectively how each man helped create the legend surrounding the other.”
“Room should be made for this approachable, touching, and altogether fascinating buddy comedy.”
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