The Fight

i just can't shake off the feeling that Mailer is extremely narcissistic (why does he talk so much about himself when the book is supposed to be an account of such an iconic fight?) and definitely racist. i don't understand how it's considered ‘one of the greatest books written about boxing'. okay, it's okay and well written in some parts but it often tends to go off topic and doesn't address many important social issues
on the other hand, there were few interesting bits that revealed from a first person perspective how Ali and Foreman acted and experienced the fight so that was intriguing