The Last of the Four Musketeers: Allen Joe's Life and Friendship With Bruce Lee Linda, Bruce Lee's widow, says, “I know Allen's story will help people better understand Bruce Lee's story-the story of achieving excellence against all odds. Here is the true story told with e
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| Title | : | The Last of the Four Musketeers: Allen Joe's Life and Friendship With Bruce Lee |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.57 (460 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1504342968 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 110 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-16 |
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In this book, Grandmaster Allen Joe tells an extraordinary personal story of his family, true love, triumph, heartbreaks, and his best friends. Here is the true story told with enormous honesty, keen insight, passion, and essence of the human life. Allen takes us inside his family in Oakland's Chinatown before World War Ii and shares his experience of war and meeting his best friend, Bruce Lee. When Bruce and Linda were married in 1964, they moved to Oakland and lived with James Lee, his wife, and two children. As you read the story of Allen's life, you will learn how Allen's long-time friendship with James led to a meeting with Bruce in Seattle. As a reader, you will enter Bruce Lee's world and get to know James, Bruce, Allen, and George, the Four Musketeers. Linda, Bruce Lee's widow, says, “I know Allen's story will help people better understand Bruce Lee's story-the story of achieving excellence against all odds. That is what this book is about.” “There are certain
Editorial : About the AuthorAllen Joe was the first Asian American to win the title of Mr. Northern California Bodybuilding Champion in 1946. He was one of Bruce Lee's closest friends and inspired Bruce to build up his body through proper training. Allen is a role model for the young martial artists, demonstrating not only physical skills but also the values of friendship, respect, and hard work. Allen has continued to love and support Bruce's family over the decades since Bruce passed away. At ninety-two years of age, Allen still lifts weights and stays in good shape.
After serving in World War II, Allen married his high school sweetheart, Annie, and they have been together for sixty-nine years. Today, Allen serves on the board of the Bruce Lee Foundation. He is esteemed as an ambassador for the preservation of the legacy of his old friend Bruce.
Svetlana Kim is the author of White Pearl and I: A Memoir of a Political Refugee. She is also a speaker and radio talk show host.
Yet, in the weeks after reading the book, I have found that I have drawn upon it more than I would have expected.
For a beginning therapist, I believe this book offers a good transition from the classroom to clinical practice. And yes there is a page labeled "Sparrows" covering a bunch and there is only one, the House Sparrow, with its photo and 100-200 words with its own page. Much like that book, any discussion of the serious events talking place is removed in favor of a romanticized view of the characters. There are conversion charts, sure, but when students are learning an unfamiliar and complex subject and some may have no experience beyond Rit in a washing machine, i don't want to ask them to work from a book where I have to keep reframing things for them ("It says Metapex but that means Synthrapol for the US.") For this reason i gave it four stars.
However, this book is fantastic and I plan to get it for my personal library regardless. There are several cha
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