{"product_id":"b0dfyt7ph8","title":"Clint: The Man and the Movies―A Comprehensive Biography of Hollywood's Most Iconic Actor-Director","description":"\u003cp\u003eA  New Yorker  Best Book of the Year,  New York Times  Editors Choice, and  Los Angeles Times  Must Read Book\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the biography of Clint Eastwood we've been waiting for. — Sir Christopher Frayling, author of  Sergio Leone\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the acclaimed film critic and  New York Times  bestselling biographer of Paul Newman, a revelatory portrait of Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood, the most prolific and versatile actor-director in movie history and an imposing icon of American culture for six decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis fine-grained and deeply researched unfolding of Eastwood’s life and career . . . reveal[s] fascinating truths about Eastwood’s art, and about cinema itself.” —Richard Brody,  The New Yorker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eC-L-I-N-T. That single short, sharp syllable has stood as an emblem of American manhood and morality and sheer bloody-minded will, on-screen and off-screen, for more than sixty years. Whether he’s facing down bad guys on a Western street (Old West or new, no matter), staring through the lens of a camera, or accepting one of his movies' thirteen Oscars (including two for Best Picture), he is as blunt, curt, and solid as his name, a star of the old-school stripe  and  one of the most accomplished directors of his time, a man of rock and iron and brute force: Clint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo read the story of Clint Eastwood is to understand nearly a century of American culture. No Hollywood figure has so completely and complexly stood inside the changing climates of post–World War II America. At age ninety-five, he has lived a tumultuous century and embodied much of his time and many of its contradictions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe picture Clint squinting through cigarillo smoke in  A Fistful of Dol­lars  or  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ; imposing rough justice at the point of a .44 Magnum in  Dirty Harry ; sowing vengeance in  The Outlaw Josey Wales  or  Pale Rider  or  Unforgiven ; grudgingly training a woman boxer in  Million Dollar Baby ; and standing up for his neighbors despite his racism in  Gran Torino . Or we feel him present, powerfully, behind the camera, creating complex tales of violence, morality, and humanity, such as  Mystic River ,  Letters from Iwo Jima , and  American Sniper . But his roles and his films, however well cast and convincing, are two-dimensional in comparison to his whole life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs Shawn Levy reveals in this masterful biography—the most com­plete portrait yet of Eastwood—the reality is richer, knottier, and more absorbing.  Clint: The Man and the Movies  is a saga of cunning, determi­nation, and conquest, a story about a man ascending to the Hollywood pantheon while keeping one foot firmly planted outside its door.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":52830672421080,"sku":"YSL48759","price":5.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0835\/3356\/2072\/files\/81-JgRLBmNL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793192509","url":"https:\/\/www.bookmebay.com\/products\/b0dfyt7ph8","provider":"BookMebay","version":"1.0","type":"link"}