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Irresistibly magnetic on-stage, mesmerizing in films, seven occasions an Academy-Award nominee, Richard Burton rose from modest origins in Wales to become Hollywood's most highly-paid actor and among England's most respected Shakespearean entertainers. His unbelievable love with Elizabeth Taylor, his famous drinking and story telling, his stunning buys (enormous diamonds, an aircraft, houses on many locations), and his enormous skill kept him continually in the general public eye. The guy behind the superstar act transported an astonishing load of uncertainty and battled with all the challenges of the life lived mostly in the volume writes Burtonis substantial individual journals within their entirety for the very first time. His documents include several years—from 1939, when he was still an adolescent, to 1983, the entire year before his death—and he is revealed by them in his most private moments, contemplating his loves and devils, his triumphs and his heartbreaks.