More Than a Champion: The Style of Muhammad Ali - Softcover
"A dazzling portrait. . . . Written with energy, daring, and artful intelligence." --San Francisco Chronicle
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Written by a German academic, More Than a Champion is an odd gem, a thin volume with a solid jab. Using the almost mythic confrontation of Ali and Joe Frazier in Manila as his centerpiece, Jan Philipp Reemtsma bobs and weaves through the champ's life and career to establish a thesis that goes the distance: that Ali, both in and out of the ring, was ultimately a prisoner of the majestic boxing style he created for himself. Though at times Reemtsma seems a little punch-drunk on his own erudition, he is a precise interpreter of boxing's essence, and an imaginative analyst of its most poetic practitioner.
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Jan Philipp Reemtsma was born in Germany in 1952. A philologist by training, he is the director of both the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and the Arno Schmidt Foundation. He lives in Hamburg.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0375700056
- ISBN 13 9780375700057
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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