{"product_id":"the-fight","title":"Norman Mailer. Neil Leifer. Howard L. Bingham. The Fight","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__title\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eA Meeting of Giants\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__description--subtitle\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eMailer’s intimate record of Muhammad Ali and George Foreman’s titanic battle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__description--content\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eOn October 30, 1974, in \u003cstrong\u003eKinshasa, Zaire\u003c\/strong\u003e, at the virtual center of Africa, two boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to confront each other in an epic match. One was \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca class=\"keyword-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taschen.com\/en\/collection\/muhammad-ali\/\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"\/en\/collection\/muhammad-ali\/\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eMuhammad Ali\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, who vowed to reclaim the championship he had lost. The other was \u003cstrong\u003eGeorge Foreman\u003c\/strong\u003e, who was as taciturn as Ali was voluble and who kept his hands in his pockets “the way a hunter lays his rifle back into its velvet case.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eObserving them both was \u003cstrong\u003eNorman Mailer\u003c\/strong\u003e, whose grasp of the titanic battle’s feints and stratagems—and sensitivity to their deeper symbolism—made his \u003cstrong\u003e1975 book \u003cem\u003eThe Fight\u003c\/em\u003e a masterpiece of sportswriting\u003c\/strong\u003e. Whether analyzing the fighters’ moves, interpreting their characters, or weighing their \u003cstrong\u003ecompeting claims on the African and American souls\u003c\/strong\u003e, Mailer was a commentator of unparalleled acumen—and surely one of the few intrepid enough to accompany Ali on a late-night run through the bush. Through \u003cem\u003eThe Fight\u003c\/em\u003e he restores our tarnished notions of heroism to a blinding gleam, and establishes himself as a champion in his own right.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eOver four decades after its original publication, this edition of \u003cem\u003eThe Fight \u003c\/em\u003ehas been introduced and abridged by Mailer scholar J. Michael Lennon and \u003cstrong\u003eillustrated for the first time with principal photography\u003c\/strong\u003e by the two men who captured Ali and Foreman in the ring and in private like no one else: \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca class=\"keyword-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taschen.com\/en\/collection\/neil-leifer\/\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"\/en\/collection\/neil-leifer\/\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eNeil Leifer\u003c\/a\u003e and Howard L. Bingham\u003c\/strong\u003e. Widely considered to be the greatest sports photographer of his generation, \u003ca class=\"keyword-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taschen.com\/en\/collection\/neil-leifer\/\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"\/en\/collection\/neil-leifer\/\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eNeil Leifer\u003c\/a\u003e’s vibrant color coverage dominates from ringside. It also serves as a living testimony to the \u003cstrong\u003epageantry, sheer physical power, and deep psychological interplay of the fighters\u003c\/strong\u003e, their camps, and their controversial host, Zaire’s President Mobutu Sese Seko. Behind the scenes, meanwhile, Howard Bingham was Ali’s constant companion, documenting his every move from the moment he stepped off the plane in Zaire, his daily training regime, right through to the dressing room tension as he prepared to face Foreman once and for all.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eTogether with pictures from other photojournalists, reproductions of Mailer’s original manuscript pages, and additional visual documentation of the media frenzy surrounding the “Rumble in the Jungle,” the result is a \u003cstrong\u003edazzling tribute to The Champ\u003c\/strong\u003e and a vivid document of one of the \u003cstrong\u003emost epic, adrenaline-laced events in sporting history\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__biography\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__biography--biographies\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__biography--wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"read-more__biography--title\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eThe photographers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__biography--item\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__biography--text\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHoward L. Bingham\u003c\/strong\u003e (1939–2016) photographed Ali—then Cassius Clay—at a press appearance in Los Angeles in 1962. A year later, Ali knighted him his “personal photographer,” inaugurating a lifelong friendship and over a million photographs of The Champ both in and outside of the ring. His work was featured in magazines including \u003cem\u003eLife\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSports Illustrated\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eEbony\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__biography--item\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__biography--text\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eNative New Yorker \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca class=\"keyword-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taschen.com\/en\/collection\/neil-leifer\/\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"\/en\/collection\/neil-leifer\/\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eNeil Leifer\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e began photographing sports events as a teenager. Over 160 of his pictures have appeared on the cover of \u003cem\u003eSports Illustrated\u003c\/em\u003e and over 40 of his photographs have graced the cover of \u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e. He has published 17 books, and was one of two principal photographers in TASCHEN’s tribute to \u003ca class=\"keyword-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taschen.com\/en\/collection\/muhammad-ali\/\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"\/en\/collection\/muhammad-ali\/\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eMuhammad Ali\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGOAT—Greatest Of All Time\u003c\/em\u003e, and the illustrated edition of Norman Mailer’s \u003cem\u003eThe Fight\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__biography--wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"read-more__biography--title\"\u003eThe author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__biography--item\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__biography--text\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNorman Mailer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1923–2007) was one of the 20th century’s most influential writers, and one of America’s most renowned and controversial literary figures. The best-selling author of a dozen novels and 20 works of nonfiction, he also wrote plays, screenplays, television miniseries, hundreds of essays, two books of poetry, and a collection of short stories. A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he lived in Brooklyn, New York, and Provincetown, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__biography--wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"read-more__biography--title\"\u003eThe contributing author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__biography--item\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__biography--text\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJ. Michael Lennon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis Emeritus Professor of English at Wilkes University and the late Norman Mailer’s archivist and authorized biographer. He is the author of the authorized biography\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNorman Mailer: A Double Life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand editor of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSelected Letters of Norman Mailer\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__biography--book-info\"\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"read-more__biography--book-title\"\u003eNorman Mailer. Neil Leifer. Howard L. Bingham. 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