“I had thought I knew everything about Muhammad Ali’s life and times. How wrong I was. Todd Mealy’s depiction of the Deer Lake camp, aka ‘Fighter’s Heaven,’ paints a picture of Ali we haven’t seen before. It roots Ali in a time and place when he wasn’t in front of the cameras and had the space to be himself. This book is an utter triumph and a must-read for people who think they know the life and times of the champ. We actually did not know the rest of the story and the rest of the man until now. It makes us feel like we are seeing Ali as a three-dimensional human being for the first time, and, in my eyes, this only burnishes his reputation as ‘the greatest.’ Thank you, Todd Mealy.”—Dave Zirin, Sports Editor, The Nation