Entertainment Weekly called the book "lovingly compiled and exhaustively researched," writing that "it's a solid, respectful, drably written piece of work-in other words, it suggests none of the spontaneity and brashness that attracted us to Ali in the first place."
Kirkus Reviews called it "a detailed, if hagiographic, account of Ali's public career and private life." A review of the book in the
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