Jonathan Eig

BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2017. SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR. WINNER OF THE PEN/ESPN AWARD FOR LITERARY SPORTS WRITING. THE TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR. The most comprehensive and definitive biography of Muhammad Ali that has ever been published, based on more than 500 interviews with those who knew him best, with many dramatic new discoveries about his life and career. When the frail, trembling figure of Muhammad Ali lit the Olympic flame in Atlanta in 1996, a TV audience of up to 3 billion people was once again gripped by the story of the worlds most famous sporting icon. The man who had once been reviled for his refusal to fight for his country and for his fast-talking denunciation of his opponents was now almost universally adored, the true cost of his astonishing boxing career clear to see. In Jonathan Eigs ground-breaking biography, backed up with much detailed new research specially commissioned for this book, we get a stunning portrait of one of the most significant personalities of the second half of the twentieth century. We are not only taken inside the ring for some of the most famous bouts in boxing history, we also learn about his personal life, his finances, his faith and the moments when the first signs of his physical decline began to show. Ali was a symbol of freedom and courage, a hero to many, but this is also a very personal story of a warrior who vanquished every opponent but was finally brought down by his own stubborn refusal to quit. An epic tale of a fighter who became the worlds most famous pacifist, Ali: A Life does full justice to an extraordinary man.Ali: A Life is the business 640 pages of patient scholarship and intelligent reassessment written in crackly prose Giles Smith, The Times [A] richly researched, sympathetic yet unsparing portrait ... Ali: A Life is an epic of a biography Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times

The real story of how the federal government finally apprehended and convicted Americas most notorious criminal, Al Capone.Drawing on recently discovered government documents, wiretap transcripts, and Al Capones handwritten personal letters, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Eig tells the dramatic story of the rise and fall of the nations most infamous criminal in rich new detail.From the moment he arrived in Chicago in 1920, Capone found himself in a world with limitless opportunity. Within a few years Capone controlled an illegal bootlegging business with annual revenue rivaling that of some of the nations largest corporations. Along the way he corrupted the Chicago police force and local courts while becoming one of the worlds first international celebrities. Legend credits Eliot Ness and his Untouchables with apprehending Capone, but Eig shows that this wasnt so. In Get Capone, the man known as Scarface emerges as a complex man, doomed as much by his ego as by his vicious criminality. This is the real Al Capone.

This bestselling account of the most important season in baseball history, 1947, tells the dramatic story of how Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and changed baseball forever.April 15, 1947, marked the most important opening day in baseball history. When Jackie Robinson stepped onto the diamond that afternoon at Ebbets Field, he became the first black man to break into major-league baseball in the twentieth century. World War II had just ended. Democracy had triumphed. Now Americans were beginning to press for justice on the home frontand Robinson had a chance to lead the way. In Opening Day, Jonathan Eig tells the true story behind the national pastimes most sacred myth. He offers new insights into events of sixty years ago and punctures some familiar legends. Was it true that the St. Louis Cardinals plotted to boycott their first home game against the Brooklyn Dodgers? Was Pee Wee Reese really Robinsons closest ally on the team? Was Dixie Walker his greatest foe? How did Robinson handle the extraordinary stress of being the only black man in baseball and still manage to perform so well on the field? Opening Day is also the story of a team of underdogs that came together against tremendous odds to capture the pennant. Facing the powerful New York Yankees, Robinson and the Dodgers battled to the seventh game in one of the most thrilling World Series competitions of all time. Drawing on interviews with surviving players, sportswriters, and eyewitnesses, as well as newly discovered material from archives around the country, Jonathan Eig presents a fresh portrait of a ferocious competitor who embodied integrations promise and helped launch the modern civil-rights era. Full of new details and thrilling action, Opening Day brings to life baseballs ultimate story.

La biografía más completa y definitiva de Muhammad Ali que jamás se haya publicado.Muhammad Ali se llamaba a sí mismo "El más grande", y muchos estaban de acuerdo. Era el más ingenioso, el más guapo, el mas descarado, el mas malo, el mas rapido, el mas ruidoso, el mas rudo. Ahora llega la primera biografia completa y no autorizada de una de las figuras mas fantasticas del siglo XX.Basada en mas de 500 entrevistas con quienes mejor conocieron a Ali que han sobrevivido, y mejorada por el descubrimiento por parte del autor de miles de paginas de registros del FBI y entrevistas de Ali recientemente descubiertas de la decada de 1960, lo que ha permitido conocer muchos nuevos y espectaculares datos sobre su vida y su carrera, este es el impresionante retrato de un hombre que se convirtio en una leyenda.Cuando la fragil y temblorosa figura de Muhammad Ali encendio la llama olimpica en Atlanta en 1996, una audiencia televisiva de hasta 3.000 millones de personas volvio a quedar atrapada por la historia del icono deportivo mas famoso del mundo. El hombre que en su dia fue vilipendiado por su negativa a luchar por su pais y por su verborrea al denunciar a sus oponentes era ahora adorado casi universalmente, y el verdadero coste de su asombrosa carrera boxistica estaba a la vista.En la innovadora biografia de Jonathan Eig, respaldada por nuevas y detalladas investigaciones encargadas especialmente para este libro, obtenemos un impresionante retrato de una de las personalidades mas significativas de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. No solo nos lleva al interior del cuadrilatero en algunos de los combates mas famosos de la historia del boxeo, sino que tambien conocemos su vida personal, sus finanzas, su fe y los momentos en que empezaron a aparecer los primeros signos de su declive fisico. Ali fue un simbolo de la libertad y el valor, un heroe para muchos, pero esta es tambien una historia muy personal de un guerrero que vencio a todos sus oponentes, pero que finalmente fue derribado por su propia obstinacion en no abandonar jamas.Una historia epica de un luchador que se convirtio en el pacifista mas famoso del mundo, Ali: Una vida hace plena justicia a un hombre extraordinario.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERVividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eigs King is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself. He casts fresh light on the King familys origins as well as MLKs complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists. King reveals a minister wrestling with his own human frailties and dark moods, a citizen hunted by his own government, and a man determined to fight for justice even if it proved to be a fight to the death.

The definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig.Lou Gehrig was a baseball legendthe Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a horrible disease that now bears his name. But as this definitive new biography makes clear, Gehrigs life was more complicatedand, perhaps, even more heroicthan anyone really knew. Drawing on new interviews and more than two hundred pages of previously unpublished letters to and from Gehrig, Luckiest Man gives us an intimate portrait of the man who became an American hero: his life as a shy and awkward youth growing up in New York City, his unlikely friendship with Babe Ruth (a friendship that allegedly ended over rumors that Ruth had had an affair with Gehrigs wife), and his stellar career with the Yankees, where his consecutive-games streak stood for more than half a century. What was not previously known, however, is that symptoms of Gehrigs affliction began appearing in 1938, earlier than is commonly acknowledged. Later, aware that he was dying, Gehrig exhibited a perseverance that was truly inspiring; he lived the last two years of his short life with the same grace and dignity with which he gave his now-famous luckiest man speech. Meticulously researched and elegantly written, Jonathan Eigs Luckiest Man shows us one of the greatest baseball players of all time as weve never seen him before.

« Un soir d’hiver à Manhattan, tard, Margaret Sanger vint trouver Gregory Pincus pour parler révolution, rien que ça. Il ne serait question ni de pistolets ni de bombes… seulement de sexe, et plus il

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *SELECTED AS ONE OF BARACK OBAMAS FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023*Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eigs King is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself. He casts fresh light on the King familys origins as well as MLKs complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists. King reveals a minister wrestling with his own human frailties and dark moods, a citizen hunted by his own government, and a man determined to fight for justice even if it proved to be a fight to the death. As he follows MLK from the classroom to the pulpit to the streets of Birmingham, Selma, and Memphis, Eig dramatically re-creates the journey of a man who recast American race relations and became its only modern-day founding father as well as the nations most mourned martyr. In this landmark biography, Eig gives us an MLK for our times: a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of historys greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime.

Um retrato íntimo e nuançado de Martin Luther King Jr., nesta que é mais abrangente biografia já escrita sobre ele.Martin Luther King Jr. é dos "pais fundadores" dos Estados Unidos. Essa ideia, que à

In the winter of 1950, Margaret Sanger, then seventy-one, and who had campaigned for womens right to control their own fertility for five decades, arrived at a Park Avenue apartment building. She had come to meet a visionary scientist with a dubious reputation more than twenty years her junior. His name was Gregory Pincus. In The Birth of the Pill, Jonathan Eig tells the extraordinary story of how, prompted by Sanger, and then funded by the wealthy widow and philanthropist Katharine McCormick, Pincus invented a drug that would stop women ovulating. With the support of John Rock, a charismatic and, crucially, Catholic doctor from Boston, who battled his own church in the effort to win public approval for the controversial new drug, he succeeded. Together, these four determined men and women changed the world.Spanning the years from Sangers heady Greenwich Village days in the early twentieth century to trial tests in Puerto Rico in the 1950s to the cusp of the sexual revolution in the 1960s, this is a grand story of radical feminism, scientific ingenuity, establishment opposition, and, ultimately, a sea change in social attitudes. Brilliantly researched and vividly written, The Birth of the Pillis a gripping account of a remarkable cultural, social and scientific journey

La biografía más completa y definitiva de Muhammad Ali que jamás se haya publicado. Muhammad Ali se llamaba a sí mismo "El más grande", y muchos estaban de acuerdo. Era el más ingenioso, el más guapo, el mas descarado, el mas malo, el mas rapido, el mas ruidoso, el mas rudo. Ahora llega la primera biografia completa y no autorizada de una de las figuras mas fantasticas del siglo XX. Basada en mas de 500 entrevistas con quienes mejor conocieron a Ali que han sobrevivido, y mejorada por el descubrimiento por parte del autor de miles de paginas de registros del FBI y entrevistas de Ali recientemente descubiertas de la decada de 1960, lo que ha permitido conocer muchos nuevos y espectaculares datos sobre su vida y su carrera, este es el impresionante retrato de un hombre que se convirtio en una leyenda. Cuando la fragil y temblorosa figura de Muhammad Ali encendio la llama olimpica en Atlanta en 1996, una audiencia televisiva de hasta 3.000 millones de personas volvio a quedar atrapada por la historia del icono deportivo mas famoso del mundo. El hombre que en su dia fue vilipendiado por su negativa a luchar por su pais y por su verborrea al denunciar a sus oponentes era ahora adorado casi universalmente, y el verdadero coste de su asombrosa carrera boxistica estaba a la vista. En la innovadora biografia de Jonathan Eig, respaldada por nuevas y detalladas investigaciones encargadas especialmente para este libro, obtenemos un impresionante retrato de una de las personalidades mas significativas de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. No solo nos lleva al interior del cuadrilatero en algunos de los combates mas famosos de la historia del boxeo, sino que tambien conocemos su vida personal, sus finanzas, su fe y los momentos en que empezaron a aparecer los primeros signos de su declive fisico. Ali fue un simbolo de la libertad y el valor, un heroe para muchos, pero esta es tambien una historia muy personal de un guerrero que vencio a todos sus oponentes, pero que finalmente fue derribado por su propia obstinacion en no abandonar jamas. Una historia epica de un luchador que se convirtio en el pacifista mas famoso del mundo, Ali: Una vida hace plena justicia a un hombre extraordinario.