PositiveThe Wall Street Journal…[a] relentless, image-altering biography … Though replete with tales of race, religion, war protest, sex, marital turmoil and skulduggery, this book is, more than anything else, an indictment of boxing. The cumulative damage of Ali’s boxing career is a terrible and haunting thing to read about, and it becomes all the more so when you remind yourself that Mr. Eig’s subject is one of American sports’ most beloved figures, not some luckless tomato can … Never does it seem that the resourceful Mr. Eig set out to bring Ali’s image tumbling down. He paints a vivid picture of this complex Samaritan.