As a Ali, and a boxing fan i was concerned that this book would not tell me anything 'new' about the champ. I shouldn't have worried the author does a superb job of telling the 'histories' of all the main players and mixing it with the society of the 1960's. He also tells the stories of the other main fighters of the times, Floyd Patterson and Sonny Liston. Never boring and written in the style of a historian the author achieves all his objectives and leaves no doubt that Muhhammad Ali was 'the greatest'...