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Q: TRYING TO FIND OUT IF BRUCE LEE WROTE THIS. ( Answered 5 out of 5 stars,   1 Comment )
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Subject: TRYING TO FIND OUT IF BRUCE LEE WROTE THIS.
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: raphee2002-ga
List Price: $3.00
Posted: 27 Nov 2002 21:33 PST
Expires: 27 Dec 2002 21:33 PST
Question ID: 115820
I AM TRYING TO FIND A BOOK WRITTEN BY BRUCE LEE.BOY,S LIFE OF JOHN
F.KENNEDY PUBLISHED IN 1961.STERLING PUBLISHING CO,.
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Subject: Re: TRYING TO FIND OUT IF BRUCE LEE WROTE THIS.
Answered By: clouseau-ga on 27 Nov 2002 21:49 PST
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
Hello raphee2002,

Thak you for your question.

"Boys' life of John F. Kennedy" by Bruce Lee appears to be out of
print, however a search at Amazon.com turned up a surprizing amount of
used copies for sale at very reasonable prices. Here are a few
examples:

$1.98
  Good  Seller: heroicimage  (based on 28 ratings) 
Ships from: CA, United States
Expedited shipping available 
International shipping available 
Comments: - Nice HC, some moderate wear. Interior clean & tight.
       
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$4.50
 Acceptable  Seller: abbuttercup55  (based on 19 ratings) 
Ships from: VT, United States
Comments: - ex-library book,wear on binding,great book,(JUST REDUCED)

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$8.00
 Very good  Seller: pcsbooks  (based on 639 ratings) 
Ships from: MI, United States
Expedited shipping available 
International shipping available 
Comments: - Publisher: Bold Face Books
Date of Publication: 1964
Binding: 4th
Edition: memorial ed.
Condition: VG+ HB, owner name on front end page/VG+ DJ;       

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In fact, there are 12 copies available for sale online here in various
conditions.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/offering/list/-/B00005XA6P/all/ref=dp_pb_a/103-9196592-2204608

I trust this will lead you to purchasing a copy for your own.

Regards,

-=clouseau=-

Request for Answer Clarification by raphee2002-ga on 28 Nov 2002 08:13 PST
I WAS TRYING TO FIND INFO ON THE AUTHOR,IF IT WAS BRUCE LEE THE PERSON
THAT WAS ON THE GREEN HORNET SHOW.NOT THE BOOK,I HAVE THE BOOK.

Clarification of Answer by clouseau-ga on 28 Nov 2002 09:13 PST
Hello again raphee2002,

I'm sorry to have misinterpreted your question, however

 "I AM TRYING TO FIND A BOOK WRITTEN BY BRUCE LEE.BOY,S LIFE OF JOHN
F.KENNEDY PUBLISHED IN 1961.STERLING PUBLISHING CO,."

clearly says to me that you are seeking a physical copy of this work.

That being said, I searched to see what books I could find by the
legendary Bruce Lee, martial artist. Although most of the sites I
searched including those below had a definite martial arts bent, none
made mention of the book on John F Kennedy.

Links to Bruce Lee Book Listings:
http://www.allbrucelee.com/books_about_bruce_lee.htm

http://www.wrolin.com/mabrlee.htm

http://www.wle.com/store/b_brucelee.html

http://www.sageartsunlimited.com/readingroom/store_by_bruce.html

http://www.martialart-superstore.starwebz.com/product-23.html

http://www.geometry.net/celebrities_bk/lee_bruce.html

http://members.tripod.com/~jks_website/bookstore.htm

An even at the Educational Teachings of Bruce Lee:
http://www.stingrayweb.com/clients/blef/biblio.html there is no
mention of this book by the martial artist Bruce Lee.

However, this paragraph below  from this page shows that it would have
been highly unlikely for him to have been the author as he was living
in Hong Kong and only 18 or 19 at the time he would have had to have
authored the book and it makes mention that his FIRST book was
authored in 1963, after the book in question was first published:

"Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco in 1940. He returned to Hong Kong
with his parents at the age of three-months. While growing up in Hong
Kong, Lee made a total of 18 films. At the age of 18, he boarded a
ship that returned him to America. After staying briefly in San
Francisco, Lee finally settled in Seattle where he went on to study
philosophy at the University of Washington. Lee published his first
book in 1963 entitled Chinese Gung Fu: The Philosophical Art of
Self-Defense. After thoroughly researching the human sciences of
kinesiology and physiology, Lee began to create his own method of
self-defense - predicated for the first time in the history of combat
on unconditional freedom of expression for the individual
practitioner."


I trust this provides your answer.

Regards,

-=clouseau=-

Request for Answer Clarification by raphee2002-ga on 29 Nov 2002 13:26 PST
YOU WERE WRONG ABOUT WHEN BRUCE LEE CAME HERE,HE ARRIVED 1959,AND WAS
A GRADUATE FROM EDISON TECHNICAL SCHOOL IN 1960 AND IN 1961 ENTERED
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON,SO HE MITE HAVE WRITTEN THE BOOK I AM ASKING
ABOUT.

Clarification of Answer by clouseau-ga on 29 Nov 2002 14:13 PST
Indeed, the information I provided above shows that he did arrive in
1958 0r 1959, but also shows his first book published in 1963. The
book you mention was published in 1961, hence, before his first book
was published.

-=clouseau=-
raphee2002-ga rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars
I AM VERY HAPPY WITH ANSWER,NOW I KNOW I HAVE A RARE BOOK BUT NOT
WRITTEN BY THE PERSON I WAS HOPING IT WAS WRITTEN BY THANKS.

Comments  
Subject: Re: TRYING TO FIND OUT IF BRUCE LEE WROTE THIS.
From: bowler-ga on 30 Nov 2002 14:19 PST
 
If you are still unsure, I did a search in my librarys' catalog and
found an author entry for a Bruce Lee, and your book is attributes to
him, he apparently wrote a book as recently as 1995 called "Marching
Orders:The Untold Story of World War II" which can be found at
Amazon.com.  Obviously the Bruce Lee of martial arts fame couldn't
have written that one since he was long dead by then.

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