Bogart

Ann Sperber and Eric Lax offer therevealing intimate definitive biography of the legendary Humphrey Bogart detailing the arc and span of his personal and professional life--a story oftoil tragedy and triumph. Sperber and Lax exploreBogie's abusive childhood and the three unsuccessful marriages that precededthe lasting love he found with Lauren Bacall and plumb the depths of hisarduous career working as Warner Brothers' go-to drudge actor for thirteenyears of B-list films before rising to stardom and ultimately achieving hisplace amongst Hollywood royalty. The <em>Los Angeles Times </em>calls <em>Bogart </em>animmediate triumph . . . so rich in its research so compelling in its writing itis an absorbing human story of the motion picture business in the age ofHumphrey Bogart.