JIM BROWN- The Fierce Life of an American Hero (2006) Hardcover 1st Edition. [Football]

Jim Brown: The Fierce Life of an American Hero
by Mike Freeman

Hardcover. William Morrow, New York, 2006. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. NEAR FINE in a NEAR FINE dust jacket.

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. He used his athletic brilliance to launch a movie career, becoming Hollywood's first black action hero, As a civil rights activist he was never shy about expressing his opinions and would become the subject of FBI investigations and surveillance throughout parts of his life. Then there were the women. A complex and fascinating story, Jim Brown is a towering biography of a living legend.