After an impressive but tormented career, rivers of negative publicity, a self-admitted history of bad choices, and a spectacular fall from Hollywood grace, Burt Reynolds died at the age of 82 in September of 2018. This biography describes his "loud and proud" footprint in rural, working-class America, his role in re-articulating the American definition of manhood, his astonishing romances with celebrities, and ultimately, his humor and self-effacing grace during his ruin and before his death.
