Ali, Muhammad. The Greatest, My Own Story’ 1976 Book Club Associates London, 413-pages. VG in VG mylar protected dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Angelo Dundee on title page.

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Ali, Muhammad. The Greatest, My Own Story’ 1976, 413-pages. VG in VG mylar protected dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Angelo Dundee on title page.

The 1976 Book Club Associates (BCA), London hardcover edition of Muhammad Ali: The Greatest, My Own Story is the British book club release of the iconic autobiography by the legendary heavyweight boxing champion.

Publication Details:
• Title: The Greatest: My Own Story
• Author: Muhammad Ali (with Richard Durham)
• Editor: Toni Morrison (who was a senior editor at Random House at the time)
• Publisher: Book Club Associates (BCA) by arrangement with Hart-Davis, MacGibbon
• City: London
• Year: 1976 (Following the 1975 US first edition)
• Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
• Page Count: 413 pages

Content and Synopsis:
The book offers an intimate, blow-by-blow chronicle of Ali’s life both inside and outside the boxing ring up through the mid-1970s. It explores:
• The Early Years: Growing up as Cassius Clay in the segregated American South, facing deep-seated racial bigotry and discrimination.
• The Boxing Career: His meteoric rise to fame, capturing the World Heavyweight Championship, and the tactical, psychological, and physical preparation required for historic bouts.
• The Political & Social Battle: A detailed account of his conversion to Islam, his name change, and his suspension from boxing during his prime years due to his high-profile refusal to be inducted into the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.
• The Legacy: The book captures Ali not just as an elite athlete, but as a poet, showman, anti-war advocate, and global icon fighting for human dignity and civil rights.