American Rebel: The Life of Clint Eastwood [Paperback]

InAmerican Rebel, bestselling author and acclaimed film historian Marc Eliot examines the ever-exciting, often-tumultuous arc of Clint Eastwood's life and career.

As a Hollywood icon, Clint Eastwood--one of film's greatest living legends--represents some of the finest cinematic achievements in the history of American cinema. Eliot writes with unflinching candor about Eastwood's highs and lows, his artistic successes and failures, and the fascinating, complex relationship between his life and his craft. Eliot's prodigious research reveals how a college dropout and unambitious playboy rose to fame as Hollywood's sexy rebel, eventually and against all odds becoming a star in the Academy pantheon as a multiple Oscar winner. Spanning decades,American Rebelcovers the best of Eastwood's oeuvre, films that have fast become American classics:Fistful of Dollars, Dirty Harry, Unforgiven, Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, andGran Torino.

Filled with remarkable insights into Eastwood's personal life and public work,American Rebelis highly entertaining and the most complete biography of one of Hollywood's truly respected and beloved stars–-an actor who, despite being theMan with No Name, has left his indelible mark on the world of motion pictures.
...Eliot documents a wealth of details in this well-researched, comprehensive biography that will not disappoint Eastwood's fans.
—Publishers Weekly

“The story of a man who goes from small-time jazz pianist and gas-station attendant to Hollywood leading man reads like a rich movie plotline. All the sex, brawls, and gunslinging are here.”
—Playboy

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A fascinating portrait.
—Newsweek

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