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[Miller's] new book gives you an intimate glimpse of Tragic Ali: a man of once-uncontainable animation now locked behind facial features that do not move 'one-tenth of an inch'. -- Financial Times Ali's friendship with Davis is brilliantly detailed in the author's latest book Approaching Ali: A Reclamation In Three Acts. -- Mirror Online

There have been many books about Muhammad Ali, and there will be more, but ... nobody is more qualified to write about Ali's post-boxing life than Miller. -- Bill Littlefield - Only a Game, NPR In clear, observant prose, Miller details how the most outspoken and graceful heavyweight of all time now struggles to knot a tie or make himself understood. Yet in the wreck of 'the black Superman,' Miller discovers and celebrates a spiritual Ali, a bodhisattva molded by the unlikely path of boxing and the Nation of Islam... [Miller's] engagement and journalistic integrity provide a unique perspective on a man he portrays as a hero for the world. -- Publishers Weekly Ali, now 74 and courageously battling Parkinson's disease, remains one of the great figures of 20th-century sports, and this profile finds the boxer's playful good nature and magnanimous personal spirit intact. -- Martin Brady - BookPage In Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts (Liveright), Miller weaves vignettes drawn from his time with the Champ-updates of published work combined with new recollections-to tell a deeply personal story of Ali's post-career life. From Ali's take on historic fights to his struggles with Parkinson's to unguarded moments, as when the boxer performs magic tricks for kids on a South Carolina beach, Miller celebrates the one-two combo of charisma and power that made Ali both his lifelong muse and the most famous athlete on the planet. -- C.J. Lotz - Garden & Gun Not like anything else that I have read. What a strange encounter between this extraordinary man and his gifted troubadour. One has the feeling of absolute and radiant verisimilitude, which is exactly what one requires. -- Donald Hall, former poet laureate of the United States From Norman Mailer to George Plimpton to Hunter S. Thompson to Tom Wolfe, Muhammad Ali has inspired some of the best work by America's best writers. But no one has written about him as well as Davis Miller. Approaching Ali is a book for the ages, a book to be treasured. -- Matthew Polly, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller American Shaolin

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"Davis Miller's award-winning stories have been published in many of the leading national magazines—Men’s Journal, GQ, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and Rolling Stone, among others. He is the internationally best-selling author of two previous books, including The Tao of Bruce Lee, and is co-librettist of the acclaimed chamber opera Approaching Ali, which is based on his classic story, ""My Dinner with Ali."""

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