The Life Steve McQueen explores and celebrates the films, racing, style and overall life that made Steve McQueen The King of Cool and an enduring icon. Steve McQueen remains the embodiment of cool some three decades after his death. Whether on the silver screen , racing a Triumph motorcycle across a California desert, dueling with other racers at Le Mans , or simply hanging with his pals, McQueen exuded an effortless style that belied his rough and tumble past. It’s a trick that ensures he continues to appear in advertising and pop culture all the while embraced by cinema, racing, and motorcycle fans as one of their own. He remains the ultimate guy’s guy . The Life Steve McQueen explores and celebrates the memorable aspects of McQueen’s life that, taken as a whole, defined the man and cemented his reputation as a Hollywood rebel and risk taker. Peppered with period photos , illustrations , posters , and more,  The Life Steve McQueen surveys the movie roles, racing, personal style, art, and pop culture that all combined to crown the King of Cool and ensure his legacy. "In  The Life: Steve McQueen,  Dwight Jon Zimmerman has created a way to know McQueen as much more than the media stereotypical king of cool, whose image is used to sell everything from clothing lines to motorcycles and watches. He reveals a tough kid from a hardscrabble background who worked hard to get where he wanted to go, played hard and took us along for the ride and never lost sight of his own humanity and that of those around him."― UltimateMotorcycling.com "[An] extremely well-written biography."― DeansGarage.com Dwight Jon Zimmerman  is a bestselling and award-winning author and former president of the Military Writers Society of America. Zimmerman has written more than fifteen books, including  Area 51: The Graphic History of America's Most Secret Military Installation  for Zenith Press and  Steve McQueen Full Throttle Cool  and  The Life Steve McQueen  for Motorbooks. In addition, he has written hundreds of articles on military history. Zimmerman lives in Brooklyn, New York.