{"product_id":"clint-the-life-and-legend-9780312290320","title":"Clint: The Life and Legend","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClint: The Life and Legend\u003c\/strong\u003e by McGilligan, Patrick. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780312290320.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike The Man With No Name, one of his most famous roles, Clint Eastwood has always had an aura of tight-lipped mystery. He has long been an internationally famous star, first of television and then of the movies, and he has more recently joined a select group of Oscar-winning actor-directors, including Orson Welles, Charlie Chaplin and Woody Allen.\n\nBut the real Clint has always been an enigma-until now. With this gripping and scrupulously researched biography, Patrick McGilligan, one of Americas top film writers, has revealed the man behind the indelible image.\n\nThroughout his remarkable near-half century career, Eastwood has tended to play characters who are cold, hard and morally ambiguous-from Sergio Leones \"spaghetti westerns\" through Hang Em High and Dirty Harry to In the Line of Fire and Unforgiven. No star is more the hero to his audience: a symbol of simple solutions, law \u0026amp; order, and rebellion against bureaucracy. But offscreen, Clint Eastwood has always been an arch manipulator: of women, friends and colleagues, publicity and finance.\n\nAlways even-handed, managing to steer clear of both fawning over and unfair excoriation of its fascinating subject, this biography sheds definitive light on Clint as actor, director and human being.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44955129741365,"sku":"ByrdShop_0312290322","price":30.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780312290320_7e380acd-8c09-455d-94bd-a8cb68d7a451.jpg?v=1778712376","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/clint-the-life-and-legend-9780312290320","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}