Published in 1975, The Greatest: My Own Story is Muhammad Ali’s account of his own life, told with writer Richard Durham.
Ali traces his path from a childhood in Louisville’s West End to Olympic gold, the heavyweight title, his conversion to Islam and name change, and his refusal to be drafted during the Vietnam War, which cost him his boxing license for three years.
Written in Ali’s own voice, the book is as much a document of the era’s racial and political upheaval as it is a boxer’s memoir, capturing the conviction that made him as controversial as he was beloved.
Published 1975
415 pages