Book by Ben Block Alex: Bruce Lee The King of Kung Fu

His inimitable martial arts prowess left its mark on these ancient traditions, launching him into a world that had previously been the exclusive domain of a privileged few.

His inexhaustible energies, desires, ambitions, his genius, dot his entire career, together with jealousies and scandals, gossip and controversies, from his very first public appearances, until his mysterious death.

The films he starred in have become classics in their genre, destined to remain forever as the best demonstrations of Kung Fu.

Whatever he did or said in public or private, there was no one else like him, nor is there anyone else who can replace him.

In death, as in life, Bruce Lee remains the king of Kung Fu . This book presents his incredible story:

– Bruce Lee's childhood and boyhood years: his travels between East and West

– His discovery of martial arts, and how he became an unsurpassed master of them

– His fantastic acting career as the first world star from the East

– His marriage, his love life, his diet, his drug use, his philosophy

– His friends, his enemies, his worshipers

– The truth about his strange death.

Alex Ben Block

Editor-in-Chief of the Hollywood Star News, a reporter for Bridge News, and, since January 2001, executive director of the LA Press Club. He is an internationally renowned journalist, author, consultant, and showbiz historian, having been an editor at The Hollywood Reporter for seven years. He is also the author of "Outfoxed: The Inside Story of America's Fourth Television Network." He has also served as Entertainment Editor of the Miami News, a columnist for the Detroit News, a staff writer for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and an Associate Editor of Forbes magazine. He has won numerous awards, including the Hearst Prize, the Los Angeles Press Club Award, and a four-time Publicist Guild of America Press Award nomination.