Smokin' Joe

An all-access biography of the boxer whose rivalry with Muhammad Ali riveted fans and whose legacy in American sports and society endures. “A comprehensive knockout of a biography. . . . A beautiful book.” — Wall Street Journal History will remember the rivalry of Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali as one for the ages, a trilogy of extraordinary fights that transcended the world of sports and crossed into a sociocultural drama that divided the country. Joe Frazier was a much more complex figure than j