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An edition of Jim Brown (2006)

Jim Brown

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.

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HarperCollins
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Cover of: Jim Brown
Jim Brown: The Fierce Life of an American Hero
October 1, 2007, Harper Paperbacks
in English
Cover of: Jim Brown
Jim Brown: the fierce life of an American hero
2007, William Morrow
in English
Cover of: Jim Brown
Jim Brown: The Fierce Life of an American Hero
October 1, 2007, Harper Paperbacks
Paperback in English
Cover of: Jim Brown
Jim Brown: The Fierce Life of an American Hero
October 31, 2006, William Morrow
in English
Cover of: Jim Brown
Jim Brown
2006, HarperCollins
Electronic resource in English
Cover of: Jim Brown
Jim Brown: The Fierce Life of an American Hero
October 31, 2006, William Morrow
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Jim Brown
Jim Brown: The Fierce Life of an American Hero
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OL24276308M
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9780061247194, 9780061745942, 9780061247200
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01297E0A-5A7B-414D-BA7D-58DB1F64C62A

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February 26, 2022 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
July 31, 2012 Edited by VacuumBot Updated format 'electronic resource' to 'Electronic resource'
June 19, 2010 Edited by ImportBot Added new cover
June 18, 2010 Created by ImportBot Imported from marc_overdrive MARC record