Clint: The Life and Legend

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Like so many of the characters he plays, Clint Eastwood is secretive about himself, his past and his private life. Now approaching 70, he has tended to play characters who are cold, hard and morally ambiguous: from Sergio Leone's "spaghetti westerns" through "Hang Em High" and "Dirty Harry" to "Pale Rider" and "Unforgiven". Alternately stroking and intimidating the press, Clint Eastwood has always been an arch manipulator: of women, friends and colleagues, publicity and finance. Yet in a bewildering age, perhaps no star is more the hero to his audience: a symbol of simple solutions, law and order, "de-fashioned" values, and rebellion against bureaucracy. This text is a biography that gives Clint his due as actor, director and human being.

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Patrick McGilligans biographies include the acclaimed Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only; the Edgar-nominated Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light; Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast; and George Cukor: A Double Life. The author of several New York Times Notable Books, he has also penned biographies of Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicholson, Robert Altman, and James Cagney, along with the oral history Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist (with Paul Buhle). McGilligan lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.