By the time this book is finished at the end of this year, I will have read nearly 50 books, reviewed 150 movies and videos and studied nearly 500 articles on these three men.
Deciding how to write the book has been a challenge. Should I write the book with a constant compare/contrast between Charlie, Gene and Steve, moving from one to the other with an outline of topics or should I work on one at a time moving from Charlie to Gene and then to Steve in time sequence?
I decided to do one at a time for the most part and then to mix it up in the forward and at the end.
How did I choose these three men? Well, I actually started out with two other people, Howard Hughes and Bruce Lee. They fit my profile, but in the case of Howard Hughes, after researching him for months, I decided he was simply throwing money at projects and was a fairly unlikable character. He was a genius and visionary in many fields, but I moved on to Chaplin for that early film era. As for Bruce Lee, who also fit the profile of a perfectionist and genius, I determined that there was simply not the breadth and depth of information on him to include. He was also fascinating, likable and a visionary.
Follow along with me as I both write the book and chronicle my journey.
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