Clint Eastwood
A Biography: The Man, The Myth, The Legend
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Clint Eastwood’s life reads like a century of American cinema—the silent squint of a Western gunslinger, the moral heat of a city cop, and the exacting calm of an award-winning director. In this balanced, deeply researched biography, Eleanor Whitmore traces Eastwood’s arc from modest beginnings in Northern California to global stardom and later auteurship.
Using archival sources, interviews, and film analysis, Whitmore separates the man from the myth: the rugged on-screen archetypes, the private complexities of his relationships, and the convictions that informed his politics and art. Readers will find close readings of landmark films—A Fistful of Dollars, Dirty Harry, Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, and Letters from Iwo Jima—alongside candid coverage of controversies, awards, and his late-career reinventions.
Part cultural history, part character study, this biography examines how Eastwood reshaped notions of masculinity, aging, and cinematic authorship. For film lovers, cultural historians, and curious readers alike, Clint Eastwood: The Man, The Myth, The Legend offers a clear-eyed, engaging portrait of one of cinema’s most durable figures.
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