![]() So the author of four books - on Lou Gehrig, Jackie Robinson, Al Capone and the scientific team that invented the birth control pill - embarked in 2013 on writing a fifth: "Ali: A Life."Įig says he interviewed more than 200 people, collaborated with Arizona State University scientists to analyze Ali's speech patterns and their neurological implications, commissioned a CompuBox study of every punch landed by and against boxing's self-proclaimed "Greatest of All Time" and pulled no punches in the 500-plus-page biography set for release on Tuesday. "But nobody had written the full-blown biography." There have been terrific books written about him," Eig said. "There have been a hundred books written about him. The 53-year-old journalist told an audience on Sunday at Chicago's Emanuel Congregation that he was dumbfounded a few years ago over a realization about Ali. ![]() In Eig's view then, Ali was a "superhero." ![]() The first and last image Jonathan Eig says he saw each day in his boyhood bedroom was a poster of Muhammad Ali on the ceiling. ![]()
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