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Burt Reynolds: Put the Pedal to the Metal combines biographical inspection with the dramatic flourishes of a gossip column based on fact and well-researched events, and is brought to life by colorful language surrounding a flamboyant character indeed. 

Blood Moon Productions creates examinations that are notable not just for their high drama and exposés, but for details that make them weighty and absorbing. Burt Reynolds is yet another example of their approach. It's no light read, but weighs in at 680 pages packed with black and white photos ranging from posters and ads to screen shots, candid images, magazine covers, and more. 

All this is the icing on the cake of detail, because Porter and Price focus on not just Burt Reynolds' life and notable (to shocking) actions, but his overall impact on Hollywood and celebrity productions themselves. 

Thus, the exposé that comes steeped in sensationalist facts also is tempered by psychological examination and insights, news reports, behind-the-scenes probes of his public image and private life, revelations of not just this hellraising character's powerful impact on the world, but the influences on his tumultuous life's development. 

Few other actors have captured the public imagination and eye like Burt Reynolds. And few (read: no) other books delve so deeply into the oddities, ironies, struggles, and controversies that swirled around Burt. 

These facets, combined with a solid attention to describing Hollywood politics and processes, sets Burt Reynolds: Put the Pedal to the Metal more than a notch above any other book about the man. It's a powerful survey based on source material research and comes packed with quotes, observations, insights and revelations. 

No Hollywood history or celebrity biography collection should be without Burt Reynolds: Put the Pedal to the Metal.