{"product_id":"9780312285432","title":"Robert Mitchum : \"Baby I Don't Care\"","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Mitchum\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Lee Server\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the movies' greatest actors and most colorful characters, a real-life tough guy with the prison record to prove it, Robert Mitchum was a movie icon for an almost unprecedented half-century, the cool, sleepy-eyed star of such classics as The Night of the Hunter; Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison; Cape Fear; The Longest Day; Farewell, My Lovely; and The Winds of War. Mitchum's powerful presence and simmering violence combined with hard-boiled humor and existential detachment to create a new style in movie acting: the screen's first hipster antihero-before Brando, James Dean, Elvis, or Eastwood-the inventor of big-screen cool.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Mitchum: \"Baby, I Don't Care\"\u003c\/i\u003e is the first complete biography of Mitchum, and a book as big, colorful, and controversial as the star himself. Exhaustively researched, it makes use of thousands of rare documents from around the world and nearly two hundred in-depth interviews with Mitchum's family, friends, and associates (many going on record for the first time ever) ranging over his seventy-nine years of hard living. Written with great style, and vividly detailed, this is an intimate, comprehensive portrait of an amazing life, comic, tragic, daring, and outrageous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is a well-researched, highly entertaining, and revealing biography that contextualizes Mitchum in the broader world of industry and national economics, business and politics.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Server sustains a fascination for his subject that is broad enough to encompass the man's miserable behavior alongside [Server's] vast admiration for Mitchum's body of work and hugely iconic personality.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eRobert Mitchum: \"Baby, I Don't Care\"\u003c\/i\u003e is the big Robert Mitchum book cultists have been waiting for. . . . He was a man's man in a profession of pretenders, a genuine badass, and the undisputed Boss of Cool. Lee Server captures Mitchum completely, and honors him with this fine piece of work.” —\u003ci\u003eGeorge P. Pelecanos, author of Right as Rain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780312285432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"St. Martin's Griffin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40667354071246,"sku":"9780312285432","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_8fdda62f-7f8f-49be-96dc-bbfc2a51d842.jpg?v=1639709601","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780312285432","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}