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The Zen Of Muhammad Ali

'Davis Miller writes profoundly and beautifully.'  Joyce Carol Oates

Davis Miller's writing has appeared in Rolling Stone, Men's Journal, Esquire, Sport magazine, Sports Illustrated, and numerous other periodicals.  His first published story, 'My Dinner with Ali' was voted by the Sunday Magazine Editors Association to be the best essay published in a newspaper magazine in the US in 1989. Davis Miller has two children and lives in North Carolina.

Collected here for the first time are the best of Davis Miller's essays and memoirs.  The volume contains his celebrated trilogy of award-winning Muhammad Ali pieces, including the classic 'My Dinner with Ali', together with a provocative new essay called 'The Yin and the Yang of Muhammad Ali'.  There are also two pieces about Miller's unusual relationship with another boxer, 'Sugar' Ray Leonard, and he continues to explore the Bruce Lee phenomenon - as he did in his acclaimed bestseller The Tao of Bruce Lee. The Zen of Muhammad Ali tells us about fighting, living, friendship and love.  The pieces are arranged - each with an illuminating new note - to form a unique and haunting book.

The Tao of Bruce Lee

In this companion volume to the critically acclaimed bestseller The Tao of Muhammad Ali, Miller turns to another iconic figure and seminal influence - film star and martial arts legend, Bruce Lee.

A martial arts Nick Hornby, Miller is illuminating about the ability to transform oneself no matter what the circumstances

Easygoing but unflippant, formless yet rigorous. Solid reporting and sumptuous storytelling. Miller's is an American voice attractive to Brits

I loved Davis Miller's The Tao of Bruce Lee, a book about hero worship

This fantastic second book by Miller runs deeper than an account of the author growing up as a 'karate kid' in the early 1970s. It is equally a study of the nature and role of the hero in popular culture, a poignant and unusual coming-of-age story, and an informative biography of Bruce Lee

Davis Miller continues to invent a powerful new form of writing

After telling his own story, Miller moves to Lee's saga, gently debunking many myths

Often poignant, always potent . . . Miller has created a place where New Journalism comfortably collides with traditional reporting and timeless storytelling

A really interesting, beautifully written book with amazingly random but cool distinctions like: Lee was a Confucian in a Taoist's clothing

Davis Miller is the author of The Tao of Muhammad Ali. His writing has appeared in Rolling Stone, Men's Journal, Esquire, Sport magazine, Sports Illustrated, and numerous other periodicals. His first published story, 'My Dinner With Ali', was voted by the Sunday Magazine Editors Association to be the best essay published in a newspaper magazine in the US in 1989.

Just weeks after completing Enter the Dragon, his first vehicle for a worldwide audience, Bruce Lee - the self-proclaimed world's fittest man - died mysteriously at the age of thirty-two. The film has since grossed over $500 million, making it one of the most profitable in the history of cinema, and Lee has acquired almost mythic status. 
 
Lee's was a flawed, complex yet singular talent. He revolutionized the martial arts and forever changed action movie-making. As in The Tao of Muhammad Ali, Davis Miller brilliantly combines biography - the fullest, most unflinching and revelatory to date - with his own coming-of-age autobiography. The result is a unique and compelling book.

Davis Miller

Ali's life has been documented many times over, but never has anyone captured the essence of his ongoing appeal as well as Miller. A poignant and unforgettable portrait of the sports legend

A fine, rare book... This story is a classic, one of the standards against which I'll measure all other sports writing

An elegant, moving portrait of the phenomenon that is Ali... Compelling

Told in clear, spare prose, Miller's warm celebration of Ali will have readers cheering for the man who calls himself "The Greatest of All Times" - and for his Boswell too

Miller's memoir is every fan's ultimate dream-come-true. This is a tender, terrific one-of-a-kind book - a must-read

Ron Shelton director and writer (Bull Durham, White Men Cant's Jump)

The Man, The Legend

Muhammad Ali was the greatest boxer the world has ever seen, and the most charismatic athlete of all time. Mesmeric both inside the ring and out, Ali has been a role model, a spiritual thinker and a symbol of courage for thousands of people. 
 
Davis Miller was a sickly 12-year-old child when he first encountered Ali. From this meeting there developed a powerful personal relationship that has lasted decades. The Tao of Muhammad Ali is a unique portrait of this exceptional fighter, and a compelling story of hero-worship, of fathers and sons, of strength through wisdom.

Davis Miller

Praise for The Tao of Muhammad Ali

Ali's life has been documented many times over, but never has anyone captured the essence of his ongoing appeal as well as Miller. A poignant and unforgettable portrait of the sports legend

A fine, rare book... This story is a classic, one of the standards against which I'll measure all other sports writing

An elegant, moving portrait of the phenomenon that is Ali... Compelling

Ali's life has been documented many times over, but never has anyone captured the essence of his ongoing appeal as well as Miller. A poignant and unforgettable portrait of the sports legend

A fine, rare book... This story is a classic, one of the standards against which I'll measure all other sports writing

An elegant, moving portrait of the phenomenon that is Ali... Compelling

Ali's life has been documented many times over, but never has anyone captured the essence of his ongoing appeal as well as Miller. A poignant and unforgettable portrait of the sports legend

A fine, rare book... This story is a classic, one of the standards against which I'll measure all other sports writing

An elegant, moving portrait of the phenomenon that is Ali... Compelling

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