The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography - Rilegato

Poitier, Sidney

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ISBN 10: 0062516078 ISBN 13: 9780062516077

Casa editrice: Harper San Francisco, 2000

Riassunto

The acclaimed actor reveals the depth, passion, and intellectual fervor that have driven his life and career, citing the elements of his childhood that gave him his sense of worth, family, and ethics and how these qualities are essential to spiritual development. 150,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Sidney Poitier was the first black actor to win the Academy Award for best actor for his outstanding performance in Lilies of the Field in 1963. His landmark films include The Defiant Ones, A Patch of Blue, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and To Sir, With Love. He has starred in over forty films, directed nine, and written four. He is the author of two autobiographies: This Life and the "Oprah's Book Club" pick and New York Times bestseller The Measure of a Man. Among many other accolades, Poitier has been awarded the Screen Actors Guild's highest honor, the Life Achievement Award, for an outstanding career and humanitarian accomplishment. He is married, has six daughters, four grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter.

Product Description:

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 255 pages; Description: xiii, 255 p. , [8] p. Of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Poitier, Sidney. Actors--United States--Biography.

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• Editore: Harper San Francisco
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0062516078
• ISBN 13: 9780062516077
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 255