"Based on new and revelatory material from Brando's own private archives, an award-winning film biographer presents a deeply-textured, ambitious, and definitive portrait of the greatest movie actor of the twentieth century, the elusive Marlon Brando, bringing his extraordinarily complex life into view as never before." -- Amazon.com

Prologue: The man on the witness stand -- An imaginative young man -- The hoodlum aristocrat -- The American Hamlet -- The rabble-rouser -- A family man -- Epilogue: The bard of the Hollywood Hills.