libcats.org
Главная

Jim Brown: The Fierce Life of an American Hero

Обложка книги Jim Brown: The Fierce Life of an American Hero

Jim Brown: The Fierce Life of an American Hero

He intimidated people on and off the football field. He was brutal yet brilliant, narcissistic yet magnanimous, relentless yet unyielding. Most of all, he was the greatest football player of all time. He was Jim Brown.

Jim Brown was an astonishing physical specimen with tremendous skills and intelligence. An athlete who played a number of sports at Syracuse University, he ultimately discovered that it was the violence of football that appealed to him most. The idea of physically dominating other men, surviving ferocious battles on the field against opponents who would just as soon call him a nigger as try to gouge out his eyes fueled an astonishing, record-making NFL career that led to the Hall of Fame. He battled his defenses, sometimes his teammates, and often the Cleveland Browns' legendary head coach Paul Brown.

But Jim Brown had ambitions greater than football. He used his athletic brilliance to launch a movie career, becoming Hollywood's first black action hero, culminating in a scandalous love scene with America's sweetheart Raquel Welch. He leveraged his popularity into helping the NFL's black players and becoming a civil rights activist. Never shy about expressing his opinions, Brown would become the subject of FBI investigations and surveillance throughout parts of his life.

Then there were the women. The patient wife who was essentially a single mother and who endured public humiliation. The girlfriends he ran through and the scandalous accusations of violence made by some of them.

A complex and fascinating story, Jim Brown is a towering biography of a living legend.

EPUB | FB2 | MOBI | TXT | RTF
* Конвертация файла может нарушить форматирование оригинала. По-возможности скачивайте файл в оригинальном формате.
Популярные книги за неделю:

О физической природе шаровой молнии

Автор:
Категория: science, science, exact
Размер книги: 5.03 Mb

Ключ к сверхсознанию

Автор:
Категория: Путь к себе
Размер книги: 309 Kb

Древо жизни

Автор:
Категория: Путь к себе
Размер книги: 1.70 Mb

Здоровье надо созидать

Автор:
Категория: Здоровье
Размер книги: 363 Kb
Только что пользователи скачали эти книги:

Applications of soft computing: updating the state of art

Автор: , Автор: , Автор: , Автор: , Автор: , Автор:
Размер книги: 10.16 Mb

Handbook of Process Algebra

Автор: , Автор: , Автор:
Размер книги: 57.77 Mb

La dernière prophétie, Tome 2 : Les dames d'Emèse

Автор:
Размер книги: 46.32 Mb

Slander

Автор:
Категория: fiction
Размер книги: 378 Kb

The Book Of Old Houses

Автор:
Категория: fiction
Размер книги: 513 Kb

Rose

Автор:
Категория: fiction
Размер книги: 147 Kb