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He is the very spirit of the 20th Century. --Norman Mailer

"""A multifaceted portrait of the man known to all as 'The Greatest.'"" -- Washington Post ""He is the very spirit of the 20th Century."" -- Norman Mailer"

A multifaceted portrait of the man known to all as 'The Greatest.' -- Washington Post He is the very spirit of the 20th Century. -- Norman Mailer

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Gerald Early is the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters, professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies, and director of the Center for Humanities at Washington University. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the editor of several volumes, including This Is Where I Came In: Black America in the 1960s; The Sammy Davis Jr. Reader; Body Language: Writers on Sport; Speech and Power; Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalence of Assimilation; and My Soul's High Song: The Collected Works of Countee Cullen, as well as the author of The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture, which won the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism; One Nation Under a Groove: Motown and American Culture; Daughters: On Family and Fatherhood; and Tuxedo Junction.

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