Jonathan Eig, one of America’s best storytellers, during the work on this book conducted more than six hundred interviews with over two hundred people connected in one way or another to the sports legend, and uncovered many archival sources. All of this made it possible to recreate a credible, detailed history in which Ali is revealed from a new, unexpected side. Like a time machine, it will take you as close as possible—how close is even possible—to the young Cassius Clay, his mother, father, and many others; to a fighter for justice, a youth idol, and a favorite of women—Muhammad Ali.