Джонатан Эйг — новинки

The most comprehensive and definitive biography of Muhammad Ali that has ever been published, based on more than 500 interviews with those who knew him best, with many dramatic new discoveries about his life and career.
When the frail, trembling figure of Muhammad Ali lit the Olympic flame in Atlanta in 1996, a TV audience of up to 3 billion people was once again gripped by the story of the world's most famous sporting icon. The man who had once been reviled for his refusal to fight for his country and for his fast-talking denunciation of his opponents was now almost universally adored, the true cost of his astonishing boxing career clear to see.
In Jonathan Eig's ground-breaking biography, backed up with much detailed new research specially commissioned for this book, we get a stunning portrait of one of the most significant personalities of the second half of the twentieth century. We are not only taken inside the ring for some of the most famous bouts in boxing history, we also learn about his personal life, his finances, his faith and the moments when the first signs of his physical decline began to show. Ali was a symbol of freedom and courage, a hero to many, but this is also a very personal story of a warrior who vanquished every opponent but was finally brought down by his own stubborn refusal to quit.
An epic tale of a fighter who became the world's most famous pacifist, Ali: A Life does full justice to an extraordinary man.

Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.―and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself. He casts fresh light on the King family’s origins as well as MLK’s complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists. King reveals a minister wrestling with his own human frailties and dark moods, a citizen hunted by his own government, and a man determined to fight for justice even if it proved to be a fight to the death. As he follows MLK from the classroom to the pulpit to the streets of Birmingham, Selma, and Memphis, Eig dramatically re-creates the journey of a man who recast American race relations and became our only modern-day founding father―as well as the nation’s most mourned martyr.

In this landmark biography, Eig gives us an MLK for our a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history’s greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime.

Includes 8 pages of black-and-white photographs

Джонатан Эйг, один из лучших рассказчиков Америки, во время работы над этой книгой провел более шестисот интервью с более чем двумястами человек, так или иначе связанных со спортивной легендой, и поднял множество архивных источников. Всё это позволило воссоздать достоверную, полную деталей историю, в которой Али раскрывается с новой, неожиданной стороны. Словно машина времени она перенесет вас максимально близко, насколько это возможно, к молодому Кассиусу Клею, его матери, отцу и многим другим; к борцу за справедливость, кумиру молодежи и любимцу женщин — Мухаммеду Али.

К началу 1950-х годов семейная жизнь в США казалась прочной и гармоничной: жены в накрахмаленных передниках посвящали день воспитанию детей и ведению хозяйства, а по вечерам встречали мужей с бокалом мартини. А за кулисами этой идиллии женщины, в том числе многодетные матери, писали отчаянные письма активной феминистке, основательнице Американской лиги контроля над рождаемостью Маргарет Сэнгер. Она была их последней надеждой получить простое и надежное средство контрацепции. Сэнгер стала мотором, сердцем группы из четырех человек, вдохновляя их на поиск чудо-таблетки. Этими людьми были сама Маргарет Сэнгер, изгнанный из Гарварда…

История мужественного человека, который перевернул привычный мир! Джонатан Эйг, один из лучших рассказчиков Америки, во время работы над этой книгой провел более шестисот интервью с более чем двумястами человек, так или иначе связанных со спортивной легендой, и поднял множество архивных источников. Всё это позволило воссоздать достоверную, полную деталей историю, в которой Али раскрывается с новой, неожиданной стороны. Словно машина времени она перенесет вас максимально близко, насколько это возможно, к молодому Кассиусу Клею, его матери, отцу и многим другим; к борцу за справедливость, кумиру молодежи и любимцу женщин – Мухаммеду Али. © 2017 by Jonathan Eig © Перевод Степченко М., 2021 © & ℗ ООО «Издательство АСТ», «Аудиокнига», 2021

История мужественного человека, который перевернул привычный мир! Джонатан Эйг, один из лучших рассказчиков Америки, во время работы над этой книгой провел более шестисот интервью с более чем двумястами человек, так или иначе связанных со спортивной легендой, и поднял множество архивных источников. Всё это позволило воссоздать достоверную, полную деталей историю, в которой Али раскрывается с новой, неожиданной стороны. Словно машина времени она перенесет вас максимально близко, насколько это возможно, к молодому Кассиусу Клею, его матери, отцу и многим другим; к борцу за справедливость, кумиру молодежи и любимцу женщин – Мухаммеду Али. © 2017 by Jonathan Eig © Перевод Степченко М., 2021 © & ℗ ООО «Издательство АСТ», «Аудиокнига», 2021

История мужественного человека, который перевернул привычный мир! Джонатан Эйг, один из лучших рассказчиков Америки, во время работы над этой книгой провел более шестисот интервью с более чем двумястами человек, так или иначе связанных со спортивной легендой, и поднял множество архивных источников. Всё это позволило воссоздать достоверную, полную деталей историю, в которой Али раскрывается с новой, неожиданной стороны. Словно машина времени она перенесет вас максимально близко, насколько это возможно, к молодому Кассиусу Клею, его матери, отцу и многим другим; к борцу за справедливость, кумиру молодежи и любимцу женщин – Мухаммеду Али. © 2017 by Jonathan Eig © Перевод Степченко М., 2021 © & ООО «Издательство АСТ», «Аудиокнига», 2021

He was the wittiest, the prettiest, the strongest, the bravest, and, of course, the greatest (as he told us himself). Muhammad Ali was one of the twentieth century’s most fantastic figures and arguably the most famous man on the planet.

But until now, he has never been the subject of a complete, unauthorized biography. Jonathan Eig, hailed by Ken Burns as one of America’s master storytellers, radically reshapes our understanding of the complicated man who was Ali. Eig had access to all the key people in Ali’s life, including his three surviving wives and his managers. He conducted more than 500 interviews and uncovered thousands of pages of previously unreleased FBI and Justice Department files, as well dozens of hours of newly discovered audiotaped interviews from the 1960s. Collectively, they tell Ali’s story like never before—the story of a man who was flawed and uncertain and brave beyond belief.

“I am America,” he once declared. “I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me—black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own. Get used to me.”

He was born Cassius Clay in racially segregated Louisville, Kentucky, the son of a sign painter and a housekeeper. He went on to become a heavyweight boxer with a dazzling mix of power and speed, a warrior for racial pride, a comedian, a preacher, a poet, a draft resister, an actor, and a lover. Millions hated him when he changed his religion, changed his name, and refused to fight in the Vietnam War. He fought his way back, winning hearts, but at great cost. Like so many boxers, he stayed too long.

Jonathan Eig’s Ali reveals Ali in the complexity he deserves, shedding important new light on his politics, religion, personal life, and neurological condition. Ali is a story about America, about race, about a brutal sport, and about a courageous man who shook up the world.

A Chicago Tribune "Best Books of 2014" A Slate "Best Books 2014: Staff Picks" A St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Best Books of 2014" The fascinating story of one of the most important scientific discoveries of the twentieth century. We know it simply as "the pill," yet its genesis was anything but simple. Jonathan Eig's masterful narrative revolves around four principal characters: the fiery feminist Margaret Sanger, who was a champion of birth control in her campaign for the rights of women but neglected her own children in pursuit of free love; the beautiful Katharine McCormick, who owed her fortune to her wealthy husband, the son of the founder of International Harvester and a schizophrenic; the visionary scientist Gregory Pincus, who was dismissed by Harvard in the 1930s as a result of his experimentation with in vitro fertilization but who, after he was approached by Sanger and McCormick, grew obsessed with the idea of inventing a drug that could stop ovulation; and the telegenic John Rock, a Catholic doctor from Boston who battled his own church to become an enormously effective advocate in the effort to win public approval for the drug that would be marketed by Searle as Enovid. Spanning the years from Sanger’s heady Greenwich Village days in the early twentieth century to trial tests in Puerto Rico in the 1950s to the cusp of the sexual revolution in the 1960s, this is a grand story of radical feminist politics, scientific ingenuity, establishment opposition, and, ultimately, a sea change in social attitudes. Brilliantly researched and briskly written, The Birth of the Pill is gripping social, cultural, and scientific history. 8 pages of illustrations

Drawing on thousands of pages of recently discovered government documents, wiretap transcripts, and Al Capone’s handwritten personal letters, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Eig tells the dramatic story of the rise and fall of the nation’s most notorious criminal in rich new detail.

From the moment he arrived in Chicago in 1920, Capone found himself in a world of limitless opportunity. He was an impetuous, affable young man of average intelligence, ill prepared for fame and fortune, whose most notable characteristic was his scarred left cheek. Yet within a few years, Capone controlled an illegal bootlegging business with annual revenue rivaling that of some of the nation’s largest corporations. Along the way he corrupted the Chicago police force and local courts while becoming one of the world’s first international celebrities.

A furious President Herbert Hoover insisted that Capone be brought to justice because the criminal was making a mockery of federal law. Legend credits Eliot Ness and his “Untouchables” with apprehending Capone. But it was the U.S. attorney in Chicago and little-known agents working on direct orders from the White House who compromised their ethics—and risked their lives—to get their man.

The most infamous crime attributed to Capone was the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, a crime that Capone insisted he didn’t commit. Using newly discovered FBI records, Eig offers a surprising explanation for the murders.

Get Capone explores every aspect of the man called “Scarface,” paying particular attention to the myths that have for so long surrounded and obscured him. Capone emerges as a worldly, emotionally complex man, doomed as much by his ego as by his vicious criminality. This is the real Al Capone.