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James Dean: The Biography ReviewVal Holley has written a humane and absorbing biography of an American icon who has curiously resisted demystification. The fact is that James Dean has inspired more movies than he actually made in his brief lifetime. The standard course of celebrity demystification is to strip away falsehoods and half-truths, leaving nothing of interest to remain. In contrast, Holley's work reveals Dean as a young human being--in most respects, a typical American youth--and altogether more sympathetic and interesting than the myths that have spiraled around him.Holley's book is made authoritative by exhaustive research, new information, and his easy familiarity with his subject. Happily, his scrupulous detail never hampers the narrative flow, and the book is a quick read. While there is much to praise, I must single out the chapters describing Dean's New York years and his early work in television, because this information is so new and so much more revealing of Dean's inner life and potential than the facts of his more celebrated Hollywood career. Here the reader comes into close contact with a young man struggling to overcome a troubled childhood and restricted education to express an immense talent of which he was only marginally aware. The uncertainty, loneliness and self-doubts he felt at this point of his life make him one of us all. What makes him stand out is the courage he summoned to keep on going. The fact that two things were happening--Dean's talent was suddenly and sensationally realized while his personal struggles still continued--when his life was catastrophically cut short makes his story a genuine tragedy, not a maudlin melodrama. And we can finally understand the fascination he's exercised over successive, changing generations. Likewise, it is Holley's sure and sensitive grasp of these aspects of Dean's story that makes his book far more interesting and valuable than the hagiographies that have preceded it.This is a thorough, humane portrait and a first-rate biography.James Dean: The Biography Overview

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