The James Dean Story: A Myth-Shattering Biography of an Icon

by Ronald Martinetti

Book Overview

Incorporates the intimate correspondence, revealed for the first time, of one of Dean's significant male lovers, along with never-before-published interviews with friends and associates, exposing the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559722703
• ISBN13: 9781559722704
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Carol Publishing Corporation
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

You'll feel as if you've met the real man in this book!

Fans, film historians, and even other biographers owe a lot to Martinetti's ground-breaking book. He presents a rounded, candid view of the boy from Indiana who became an icon on September 30, 1955. Martinetti's sources are the best -- Dean's friends during his lean New York years, those who knew Dean socially in Hollywood, and those who worked with him. Dean certainly made an impression on everyone who met him -- and in this book he'll make an unforgettable impression on you. Martinetti was, by the way, the first to address the issue of Dean's complex sexuality.