Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die - James Dean's Final Hours

In Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die , readers take an evocative journey with author Keith Elliot Greenberg as he pieces together the puzzle of James Deans final day and its everlasting impact. Greenberg travels to Deans hometown to talk with folks who knew the star, and all the way to the California roads that underlay the tires of the actors infamous Porsche Spyder. Taking the story back and forth in time, Greenberg gives insight into what drove Dean to live on the edge the early loss of his mother, his relentless drive to explore for the sake of his craft. Dean once said, Dream as if youll live forever. Live as if youll die today. He lived to experience, and the one love that compared to his love of acting was his love of racing cars. Greenberg puts the event in historical context, reflecting on the world Dean lived in at the time, an era after World War II, the end of the Korean War, the advent of rock and roll, with the sixties coming down the pike.