Clint: The Man and the Movies - A Comprehensive Biography of Hollywood's Most Iconic Actor-Director

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year, New York Times "Editors Choice," and Los Angeles Times "Must Read Book""This is the biography of Clint Eastwood we've been waiting for." - Sir Christopher Frayling, author of Sergio LeoneFrom 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. "This 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 YorkerC-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 accepti