UNTITLED - BRUCE LEE BIOGRAPHY

Amazingly, a major book about Bruce Lee has never been written. But now, award-winning author and cultural historian Jeff Chang gives us the biography Lee deserves. He takes us deep into the heart of wild, postwar Hong Kong, where Lee roughed up fellow street kids; to Seattle, where he studied philosophy and fought in the growing black-belt underground; to the racist Hollywood of the '60s and 70's. It's all here: the brawls, the movies, the failures--even the details surrounding his mysterious death.

In 1959, a skinny and bespectacled teenager traveled from Hong Kong to San Francisco with $100 in his pocket and dreams of becoming a superstar. His name was Bruce Lee, and he would go on to become one of the world's greatest pop culture icons. Indeed, pictures of Lee adorn dorm rooms around the globe, his movies have grossed hundreds of millions of dollars, and thousands of schools teach the style of martial arts he invented, jeet kune do.

Jeff Chang is the author of Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the HipHop Generation (St. Martin’s, 2005) and has written for the The Nation, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Vibe, Foreign Policy, and Mother Jones, among many others.