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Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell were must-see TV long before that phrase became ubiquitous. Individually interesting, together they were mesmerizing. These were profoundly different -- young and old, black and white, female and a Jew, Ali barely literate and Cosell an editor of his university's law review. Yet that they had in keeping forces that made them unforgettable: Both were, above all, performers who covered up their deep personal insecurities by demanding -- loudly and frequently -- public acclaim. Theirs was an extraordinary alliance that produced drama, comedy, controversy, and a mutual respect that helped condition both men's lives.
Dave Kindred -- uniquely equipped in order to the Ali-Cosell story following a decades-long intimate working relationship with both men -- re-creates their unlikely connection with techniques nothing you've seen prior attempted. From other first meeting in 1962 through Ali's controversial conversion to Islam and refusal to be inducted into the U.S. Army (the befitting him to do both was publicly defended by Cosell), Kindred explores both heroics that created the men's upward trajectories and the demons that brought these to sadness in their later lives. Kindred draws on his activities 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 much less a mythological character but as a guy 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 tv set forever.