Cagney by John Mccabe
Cagney came from a poor Irish-American New York family but once he found his metier as an actor, it was not long before he was recognized as a brilliantly energetic and powerful phenomenon. After the tremendous impact of Public Enemy - in which he notoriously pushed half a grapefruit into Mae Clarke's face - he was typecast as a gangster because of the terrifying violence that seemed to be pent up within him. Years of pitched battle with Warner Brothers finally liberated him from those roles, and he went on to star in such triumphs as the musicals Yankee Doodle Dandy (winning the 1942 Oscar for best actor) and Love Me or Leave Me. Even so, one of his greatest later roles involved a return to crime - as the psychopathic killer in the terrifying White Heat. He retired from films in 1961 after making Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three, only to return twenty years later for Ragtime. But however much Cagney personified violence and explosive energy on the screen, in life he was a quiet, introspective, and deeply private man, a poet, painter, and environmentalist, whose marriage to his early vaudeville partner was famously loyal and happy. His story is one of the few Hollywood biographies that reflect a fulfilled life as well as a spectacular career.
John McCabe is the author of Surgery Electives: What to Know Before the Doctor Operates, an expose of the financial ties of the unethical and dangerous allopathic hospital, insurance, and pharmaceutical industries whose business practices and health care result in the deaths of thousands of people every year. The book received much media attention and was endorsed by all the patients' rights groups in North America as well as by members of the U.S. Congress.
McCabe has been a ghost co-writer on health-related books by other authors. He has also been a content and research editor on books written by David Wolfe, including the best selling raw vegan lifestyle book The Sunfood Diet Success System. His new book, Hemp: What the World Needs Now, will be published later in 2007.
Considered the world's leading authority on raw-food nutrition, foreword-writer David Wolfe is the author of the best-selling book The Sunfood Diet Success System. He conducts 70 to 80 health lectures and seminars each year in the United States, Canada, Europe and the South Pacific, and hosts at least five health, healing, and beauty retreats each year at various retreat centers around the world.
McCabe has been a ghost co-writer on health-related books by other authors. He has also been a content and research editor on books written by David Wolfe, including the best selling raw vegan lifestyle book The Sunfood Diet Success System. His new book, Hemp: What the World Needs Now, will be published later in 2007.
Considered the world's leading authority on raw-food nutrition, foreword-writer David Wolfe is the author of the best-selling book The Sunfood Diet Success System. He conducts 70 to 80 health lectures and seminars each year in the United States, Canada, Europe and the South Pacific, and hosts at least five health, healing, and beauty retreats each year at various retreat centers around the world.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780679446071 |
| ISBN 10 | 0679446079 |
| Title | Cagney |
| Author | John Mccabe |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Year published | 1997-11-18 |
| Number of pages | 439 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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