Body of work: Muhammad the mountain

07 June 2016 - 10:32
By Tymon Smith

Hunter S Thompson once wrote of Muhammad Ali: "He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we're likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation. Res ipsa loquitur. (The thing speaks for itself.)"Few figures have inspired as much good copy as Ali. Here's our pick of the best of the books on The Greatest.

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