The Bruce Lee Story [Paperback]

Linda Lee (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 1989

Here is the complete story of the great martial artist/actor Bruce Lee, told with great personal insight by Linda Lee, including hundreds of photographs from Lee's personal albums.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Black Belt Communications (February 1, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0897501217
• ISBN-13: 978-0897501217
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 8.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #332,317 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

http://TomBleecker.com
Tom Bleecker (WGA) began his writing career in 1970 under the mentorship of Oscar winning screenwriter and director Blake Edwards and continued writing television and film for Edwards for 15 years. During that time frame, Tom Bleecker also wrote for actor William Shatner, as well as several television companies and major film studios. After writing for screen and television for nearly 30 years, Tom Bleecker coauthored his first book with Linda Lee ("The Bruce Lee Story"), which was published in July 1988 and used as the foundational material for Universal's feature film "DRAGON."

Several books followed, including Tom Bleecker's controversial second book on Bruce Lee, "Unsettled Matters," which became a bestseller and is considered by many to be the most informative book ever written on the legendary martial arts icon; "The Journey" (foreword by noted biographer Joe Hyams); and "Inside U: How to Become a Master of Your Own Destiny" by Grandmaster Byong Yu, Ph.D., with Tom Bleecker (Hay House Publishers, August 2003) and, published in 2007, "Conquest over Hatred: the Donnie Williams Story," which has been featured on Pat Robertson's "700 Club" and Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). Tom Bleecker's most current film "The Jacket" starring Academy Award winner Adrian Brody and Keira Knightly was released through Warner Brothers in March 2005.

In addition to writing for film and television, Tom Bleecker is available as an author of books and book proposals, both with an author's credit and as a ghostwriter.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better Than You Think!, July 1, 2002

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"takfam" - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Bruce Lee Story (Paperback)

Like many Bruce Lee fans, I was dubious when picking up this book, suspecting it would be too sentimental and one-sided, glossing over the "true facts." However, don't be misled-- this book is GREAT. Easily among the two or three best Bruce Lee biographies, if not the best. Very well written, well organized, great rare photos. Linda does a fantastic job of giving us an idea of who Bruce Lee was, from the singular perspective of the person who truly knew him best. Sure, it glosses over the more controversial topics that have surfaced over the years (e.g., alleged drug use, personality problems, the circumstances surrounding his death). But you'll come away with a profound respect for the integrated depth of Bruce's genius, his commitment to his family, and his profound sense of integrity and character. And you'll notice that the qualities Linda chooses to highlight are in fact the ones that come out in his art as well as his screen persona. For example, here's a man who, feeling the weight of racial prejudice against himself, was nonetheless willing to physically fight a fellow Chinese for the right to teach Kung Fu to whites! That story is well-known, but the way Linda captures it illustrates Bruce's commitment to principles and his global perspective. Linda does a great job of balancing Bruce Lee as a profound philosopher as well as a uniquely gifted physical specimen. She makes you understand that it was more than simply his physical gifts that made him who he was. Perhaps Karate master Ed Parker said it best: Bruce was "one in two billion." In Linda's book, you'll be amazed at how disciplined, far-seeing, and erudite Bruce Lee was-- at such a young age. He was simply WAY ahead of his time. One could easily say that, through the medium of film, Bruce Lee singlehandedly effected a paradigm shift in the world's perception of martial arts, Asian males, eastern philosophy, and action films. This book is a very illuminating and satisfying read.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A touching insite into an amazing family, March 15, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Bruce Lee Story (Paperback)

As a UK housewife with young children I have virtually no martial arts knowledge and read the book out of curiosity. I found a truly real book about an amazing marriage and an amazing couple. I think Linda Lee is as extraodinary as her husband. I am left feeling inspired about my own life and shall pass on little nuggets of knowledge to my own kids. This book is for people interested in fellow human beings and not just martial arts followers. It is testimony in itself that nearly 30 years after his death Bruce Lee has inspired an ordinary British woman.

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Basically informative, with some mythmaking thrown in, March 15, 2001

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Worth (North Carolina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Bruce Lee Story (Paperback)

An OK book, as far as propaganda biographies go. But if you want to read one genuinely great book about Bruce Lee, make it THE TAO OF BRUCE LEE by Davis Miller, which I recommend over any other biography of Lee. Davis Miller's book is beautiful, funny, sad, a pageturner, and it's the only book to sort through all the hokum and myths to give us something real-world and true.