“Death,” Jimmy Dean said, “is the only thing I respect. It’s the only thing that has any dignity.” Strange words for a brilliantly successful young boy to utter, but the moods that evoked the words were stranger still. Before you read this third and final...
It was during his early years in New York that Jimmy Dean found some of the answers to the self-doubts that tortured him. It was there that he started on the road that led to fame—and tragedy....
Beginning an unforgettable story, never before told about Jimmy Dean . . . I knew him for such a short time— Just six years. But that was all the time Jimmy had left to live....