{"product_id":"tough-guy-michael-turback-9781490904016","title":"Tough Guy: Humphrey Bogart in His Own Words and in the Words of Those Who Knew Him","description":"Whatever the \"something special' is that constitutes a man's man and an actor's actor, he had it - and in abundance. Raised by a genteel East Coast family with a doctor father and a well-known artist mother, Humphrey DeForest Bogart emerged from a minor theatrical career in the 1920s to become one of Hollywood's most distinctive leading men, typically cast as smart, playful, courageous, tough, occasionally reckless characters who lived in a world of dames, mugs, and coppers, yet anchored by a hidden moral code - hard-boiled cynics who ultimately show a noble side. In \"The Maltese Falcon,\" when Sydney Greenstreet's Kasper Gutman, says to Bogart's Sam Spade, \"By Gad, sir, you are a character - there's never any telling what you'll say or do next, except that it's bound to be something astonishing,\" he might just as well have been describing the real-life Humphrey Bogart. Here was a man who could charm the birds off the trees one minute, and tell a producer to go straight to hell the next. They threw away the mold when he moved on. This fizzy cocktail of a book lifts the veil off the movie tough guy to reveal the real-life tough guy. It provides an unvarnished portrait of a hard-drinking, prankish extrovert whose heart was as soft as his screen lines were hard. You get a little history and a bit of sociology. But the fun comes from the abundant helping of irreverence. His contemporaries as well as subsequent observers have plenty to say about Bogie - the good, the bad, and the ugly - and his own brash words provide an affectionate, perceptive portrait of a marvelous, contradictory man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Turback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1490904018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781490904016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.24w x 0.49d","brand":"Michael Turback","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980523667711,"sku":"9781490904016","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_766c34f8-0f10-492f-80eb-5e1550c5a48a.jpg?v=1683250391","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tough-guy-michael-turback-9781490904016","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}