His autobiography “The Greatest” has a lot of fans, but it was largely written by a ghostwriter and heavily influenced/edited by Herbert Muhammad, with stuff being deleted and added diluting the authenticity of the story. Ali apparently had little interest in the book itself and claimed not to have read it until after it was published. It included the debunked story of Ali throwing his Olympic gold medal in the river after a run in with racists.
One of his recent anniversary magazines was garabage, pretty sure it was his 60th? straight horrible trash. also “becoming muhammed ali” was very interesting till I was informed most of it was fake… so.
