Paul newman foundation biography books
This book examines the life of the remarkable Paul Newman―an iconic actor, director, race car driver, political activist, businessman, philanthropist....
The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir
Newman referred to the project as an attempt at self-dissection - a memoir less about his life than it was to be about his character.
In Paul Newman: A Life, Shawn Levy gives readers the ultimate behind-the-scenes examination of the actor's life, from his merry pranks on the set to his lasting.
Five years of conversation ensued until, as one of his daughters relays, the men pretty much overwhelmed themselves out of it. The manuscript was tossed aside, perhaps burned it was thought, and did not resurface until after Newman's death from the darker corners of a storage unit.
Thousands of pages have been distilled into the body of this work, all under the supervision of his immediate family and abiding his original aim. It is a study of character largely from, but not limited to, the perspective of that character himself.
Newman was a complicated man.
The forces that drove him were highly contradictory. Keenly aware of his privilege and