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“Stunning. One of the best biographies I’ve ever read. Takes a very famous and flawed man and shows all of the pain, trauma, and complexity that went into who he really was. Mann never shies away from Brando’s faults nor does he dance around the pain he caused others (The assault from Last Tango is addressed as the monstrous act it was). While holding him accountable for these things, he also highlights how his past trauma and ongoing pain led to many of these events and the way he treated others. None of these things are excused, but we’re given insight into the imperfect man he was and the work he was doing to try to find some way out of the pain. At his core, Brando was a person who wanted to do good in the world and hated the nature of celebrity culture. There’s a lot to learn in this book, not just about him, but about the complexities of the human experience.”
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About William J. Mann
<p><strong>William J. Mann</strong> is the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando</em>; <em>Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn</em>; <em>How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood</em>; <em>Hello, Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisand</em>; <em>Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines; </em>and<em> Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood,</em> winner of the Edgar Allen Poe Award. He divides his time between Connecticut and Cape Cod.</p>
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