JIM: The Author's Self-Centered Memoir on the Great Jim Brown

by James Toback ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 1, 1971

Chronicles of the author's encounter with James Brown, the former fullback of the Cleveland Browns and one of football's first super stars -- ""melding force, speed, cunning and grace. . . the most magnificent running back. . . perhaps the greatest football player at any position, who ever lived."" And Black and Beautiful and reputed to possess vast sexual powers. Toback, on the other hand, is a tortured Jewish intellectual from New York testing his manhood against Brown's athletic, moral, political and sexual stature, searching through his hero for his own confused identity. It's all very heavy with transcendent meanings of whither America. The personality of Brown observed at work (with the Black Economic Union) and at play (basketball with the author, golf with Bill Russell, sex with various and sundry ladies) never quite focuses through the clouds of charisma.

Pub Date: March 1, 1971

ISBN: 0981805639

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1971

Categories: NONFICTION