Bruce Hart Book News 24.1.2011
Posted by David Damage on Thursday, November 17, 2011
Under: News
Bruce Hart's book, Straight from the Hart, is
scheduled for release next month. Here is the newest promotional
material for the book… Bruce Hart pulls no punches in candid new memoir.
January 24, 2011.
In his new autobiography, Straight from the
Hart (ECW Press. March 2011) professional wrestler Bruce Hart reveals
his personal take on the wrestling business and his family's place in it
– two subjects that he claims have never been thoroughly covered by
other books.
Hart writes in the foreword of his new memoir, "A
number of books (have been) written about the Hart family. The bio of
my dad by Marsha Erb was nice – although Stu, true to his old-school
roots – didn't divulge much about the inner working of the business . . .
the ones written by my other family members seemed to me to have been
penned either to get back at others, or to gratify their egos."
Hart has long been respected by the wrestling community for his
dedication to the business and for his candor. Indeed, WWE Chairman and
CEO Vince McMahon once wrote in a letter addressed to Hart, "Your
respect and passion for the wrestling business is greatly appreciated,
as well as your ‘shoot me between the eyes' viewpoint." Straight from
the Hart begins with Hart's unique childhood. He was the second of what
would become a brood of twelve children and raised in a house where men
like Andre the Giant might be seated at the breakfast table.
Throughout the book Hart recalls the close-knit ties his family had with
the wrestling business first describing what it was like to be trained
by his father and fight both with and alongside his brothers Bret and
Owen, and later, why his family's business was destroyed by McMahon's
WWF, and finally wrestling fans will find out what really happened
behind the scenes of the infamous "Montreal screwjob." It is on the
subject of his brothers that Hart writes the things that only a brother
and fellow wrestler could, without vindictiveness but without any sugar
coating.
He reveals the huge toll steroids and other drugs
have taken on his friends and family, what it was like to write his
brother Bret's newspaper columns while the "Hitman" was on the road, the
reasons behind the tragic death of Owen, and the effect it had on his
family. Packed with Bruce Hart's amazing personal stories and new
insights, Straight from the Hart is a remarkably honest look inside
wrestling's most famous family and is a must-read for all wrestling
fans.
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