Striking Distance: Bruce Lee and the Dawn of Martial Arts in America

by Charles Russo

Book Overview

In the spring of 1959, eighteen-year-old Bruce Lee returned to San Francisco, the city of his birth. Although the martial arts were widely unknown in America, Bruce encountered a robust fight culture in the Bay Area, populated with talented and trailblazing practitioners such as Lau Bun, Chinatown's aging kung fu patriarch; Wally Jay, the innovative Hawaiian jujitsu master; and James Lee, the Oakland street fighter. Regarded by some as a brash loudmouth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803269609
• ISBN13: 9780803269606
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"