MUHAMMAD ALI RINGSIDE

Perhaps no other figure in recent history has had the wide-reaching impact of the man many know simply as The Greatest. For four decades Muhammad Ali has been a symbol of honesty and strength in sports, politics, religion, and civil rights. Throughout his remarkable career, Ali was one who truly had to be seen to be believed. But while Ali's achievements have frequently been chronicled in prose, never before has his extraordinary career been documented in images. Muhammad Ali: Ringside is dedicated to one of the most popular athlete-entertainers of all time. Included are vintage posters and programs, fight tickets, handwritten letters, classic photographs, speeches, scorecards, contracts, and rare autographs, all from Ali's personal memorabilia. Divided chronologically into four sections, one for each decade from the 1960s to the 1990s, the book includes written narrative recountings of Ali's accomplishments by noted writers and entertaining quotes from Ali's contemporaries.

Editors Aaron Kenedi and John Miller run Big Fish in San Francisco, packaging books for Bulfinch Press, Chronicle, and Rizzoli. Big Fish has created more than fifty art and literary books, including Lovers: Great Romances of Our Time, Legends (with Anjelica Huston), San Francisco Stories, and Paul Gauguin's Noa Noa.