Bogart: A Life in Hollywood - Hardcover

Jeffrey Meyers

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395773997 ISBN 13: 9780395773994

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1997

Synopsis

A richly detailed portrait relates Bogart's childhood, his early years on the Broadway stage and his subsequent rise in Hollywood, his tempestuous marriages, and his final illness, in a study of a man who exemplified the image of a tough hero of great integrity.

About this title

Review:

With a dozen biographies under his belt, the veteran Jeffrey Meyers took a round-up-the-usual-suspects approach to research, unlike the more comprehensive Sperber/Lax collaboration (see above). His much briefer book has more attitude and more gossip--claiming, for example, that Bogart's wife, Lauren Bacall, had an affair with Frank Sinatra while Bogart lay dying. It also boasts a stronger point of view: Meyers opens by drawing parallels between Bogart and Ernest Hemingway, and closes with a consideration of what the posthumous "Bogart cult" says about American values.

About the Author:

Jeffrey Meyers has written lives of Katherine Mansfield, Wyndham Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Lowell and his circle, D. H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson, and Robert Frost. He lives in Berkeley, California, and is now writing a life of Gary Cooper.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0395773997
• ISBN 13: 9780395773994
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 369