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Paul Newman wasn't just the famously blue-eyed Hollywood actor who turned in some of the great performances in modern cinema in films like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Color of Money, The Hustler and Cool Hand Luke. He was that rare contradiction: a humble celebrity, and also, in the rest of his life, a generous philanthropist. Shawn Levy's biography astonishing in its consistency and level of achievement' (Washington Post) tells the story of a genuinely decent man who achieved so much more in his life than just iconic film performances: outspoken political campaigning on civil rights and nuclear proliferation; his Newman's Own brand of sauces and dressings that built into a business generating more than $250 million for charity; even the oldest driver even to win a major motor race. But Newman also had feet of clay, as Levy's fair and balanced portrait reveals. He consistently drank more than was good for him, wasn't entirely faithful to his longstanding wife Joanne Woodward, and was devastated by his son's death of a drug overdose. Immensely talented, hard-working, convinced he was much less interesting than the world appeared to find him, Newman led a life rich enough to make a superbly compelling and engrossing biography.

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This assiduous biography is particularly straight-dealing about the Newman-Joanne Woodward union.
-- The Sunday Times, October, 2010

Shawn Levy writes slick, snappy biographies.... This book on Newman is well-made and easy to read.
-- The Evening Standard, October 14, 2010

The late Paul Newman is served well by this comprehensive biography.
-- The Telegraph, October 16, 2010

'...it's terrific... A great big chunky book that tells you everything you could want to know about the screen legend' --Tim Vine in The Daily Express, December 2010

`Levy's engrossing biography does ample justice to its multi-faceted subject'
--Good Book Guide, Jan 2011
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Shawn Levy is also the author of Ratpack Confidential and Ready Steady Go. He lives in the USA.

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